internal noises is an instructional sound work focussing on the performativity of listening. The author, urging audiences to listen variously to real, imagined, hypothetical or impossible sound events, interrogates the role of listener in the production of sound.
When we hear sounds we transduce air-pressure fluctuations into meaningful sensory input - we take actual materials and make them mental. internal noises emphasises the psychic sound-making process. It virtualises sound's production, akin to a musical score; conducted in language, performed in thought. In this work we confront the transitory nature of perception, travelling between poles of actual and virtual.
internal noises seeks to trouble the roles of composer, performer and listener, breaking down their identities. The ear is displaced as listening organ in favour of a body, assembled from flesh, text and thought, shared between listeners/performers/composers.
William Burroughs wrote of the word as virus; a mental illness, a parasite, controlling minds through inevitable sound. This work proposes the written word as a sonic material and a means of control. The sound of this acoustically silent work is only available by entering into the masochistic contract of wordnoise.