Nora Turato contends with the porosity of language in contemporary media landscapes through sonorous, spoken-word performances and typographical artworks composed of found textual materials. She is known for her ability to syphon the textual idiosyncrasies of the internet into her work, appropriating language from books, advertising, social media, and everyday exchanges, and pouring it into performance scripts and visual works, which range from wall murals and videos to artist books and posters. For the 58th October Salon, she is creating a new audio piece and sound installation which derives from her research into the politics of accents, identity, and Hollywood. This piece marks a new direction for Turato, who has been working intensively with a dialect coach to exercise the full range and potential of her voice. Through a process of rigorous observation and dissection, Turato is learning to embody the sounds and speech patterns of multitudinous accent types. As such, she has developed an internal repository of sorts, a vocal cache of accents, dialects, and idiolects between which she can rapidly alternate. The piece is a sound study of Turato’s growing vocal arsenal, within which she emulates the tones of familiar Hollywood personas and character archetypes. The piece is both a rhythmic display of the artist’s vocal acrobatics and a commentary on the way accents are primed and commodified in the entertainment industry.