Speaking Circuit is a new concert series born out of PHONIX16’s studio lab sessions. It merges Saussure’s “speech circuit” with the broader idea of the circuit as a closed, dynamic loop. In Saussure’s model, speech is never a one-way act: a concept becomes sound, travels physically through space, and is decoded by another body before looping back as a new response. This continual exchange links psychological association, physiological action, acoustic transmission, and cognitive interpretation—an interdependent system of emitters and receivers. In this sense, speaking itself is already a circuit: a flow of signals routed through bodies, air, and shared meaning.

Speaking Circuit expands this loop into the electroacoustic realm. Here, the voice is reimagined as an oscillator, filter, and feedback node—an instrument patched into laryngeal transducers, talk boxes, resonant cavities, tactile interference, and cognitive filtering. The vocal tract becomes structurally parallel to microphones, loudspeakers, and signal paths, turning the body into an open, modular system where sound is produced, shaped, and recirculated. Emitter and receiver roles continually shift, forming a dynamic network of spatial sound sources and resonant bodies. Speaking Circuit stages this hybrid system in performance: a feedback-driven choreography of voice, technology, and the circulating energies between them.