low volume listening highly encouraged.

for a while now, i've been fascinated in the sensory threshold, the moment in between sensing or not, like when doing a hearing test; at one point you hear a sound and next you don't, but you're not quite sure. do you hear the beeps, something from outside or maybe something from inside yourself?

for this project, i wanted to try and recontextualize loud traffic and constant hum of air conditioning units into a quiet, nearly inaudible form as the hustle and bustle of the big city has made me realize how sensitive i am to noise. i. transportation consists of field recordings of traffic sounds. ii. ventilation instead uses sounds of air conditioning units indoors and outdoors. i decided to work with these sound sources as i had noticed that they had caught my attention many times for different reasons. i generally experience them quite loud and often annoying when i'm in the city. these sounds feel usually pretty overwhelming to me and i thought i'd want to make good use of them and recontextualize them into something more tolerable. i started recording them more, turned them down and made them quiet.