'Play the name' questions how names constrain our perception of our surroundings and ourselves. We instinctively confine objects to names, limiting perception to linguistic labels. This project challenges that tendency by translating everyday names into musical scores played on a music box.
Stripped of its literal definition, the name is no longer a restrictive label, but an open sensory experience. Through this act of listening to names as distinct, altered sounds, the audience is invited to break free from cognitive habit and achieve a new, liberated perspective on how we define the world around us. The intention of ‘Play the name’ is to redefine objects that are still recognized solely by their original names, even though they are already used in ways that differ from their intended functions.
When a mundane word we use every day resounds as an unpredictable, delicate melody, the familiar becomes beautifully unfamiliar.
