Sound Studies
Sounds at Home
The perception shifts depending on the mood. It is not that the sounds are shrinking my space, but that my space has already shrank and the sounds are now only a tangible thing to which I attach my frustration of being trapped in here. Sounds that once went unheard in their familiarity are now amplified. I hear them. But what irritates me is not the sound, but the fact that I am here in the first place.
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The Sonic-Aesthetic Of Lunch Making
Our meals are made of sounds, as much as of nutrients. One of the loudest places in our homes is kitchen, but most likely we do not pay attention to the cacophony of sounds created there; focusing instead on the preparation of the meal, perhaps having a side-conversation, and often playing music over these ambient sounds.
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Received / Perceived Sounds
My neighbourhood noises are the sounds of ‘normality’ which is currently changing*, and the ‘silences’ which will replace them will, I anticipate, feel as a void. This will be the sound (or the soundlessness) of life that has suddenly gone weird, strange, uncanny.
Entwined
A site-specific dance, exploring the idea that skin is an ear, and Salome Voegelin’s notion that “the listener is entwined with the heard.”
Becoming ‘ear body’
Dancing and music commonly come hand in hand, but many professional dancers prefer dancing to silence.
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In the process of attentive listening, the dancer’s attention slowly shifts from listening to the sound to being in the sound.