The collaboration between Junko Otake and Jayne Wilton was initiated during the Sequel exhibition at UCL in April 2009 in which both artists exhibited. Junko's work has long focused on translation and the communication. Her interest is based on the process of transformations especially through verbal expressions. She believes the breath is a significant element of verbal expressions. At the time of Sequel Junko was working on translations of images into sounds using the MIDI programme: an intersemiotic translation from image to sound. Jayne was looking at the importance of the sound of the breath to its characteristic expressiveness, and working on a way to translate these sounds into images. During these investigations she found a way of converting a sound file into a jpeg image and wanted to then see what would happen if this was then reconverted into a sound.
Junko and Jayne saw possibilities of working together to explore a common interest in breath and translation. The concept was to contrast different translations from the same data, a chance to compare the variations produced from the use of different informational interfaces. The collaborative piece takes one single data starting point and looks at how two people translate it. It therefore makes reference to the perceptional, interpretational and translational idiosyncrasies inherent in the communication process.

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