THE FEEL PHONEME
On View March 20-28
Artist Talk + Performance March 28 at 12:30PM
Rubenstein Arts Center Gallery 235
Interactive Sound Installation
“Sh.” It’s the sound of libraries and nurseries, cinemas and sprinklers. Sometimes abrasive, sometimes soothing, it is always resisting something. When issued by a single person, finger to the lips, it rarely gets the silence it demands. And yet it wields the sly, pervasive force of white noise.
“The Feel Phoneme” stages a series of ambisonic environments in the key of “sh.” At its core is a four-channel field of “white noise reliefs,” in which the oral histories of white women in Atlanta’s Stop Cop City movement have been sonically carved out of a band of white noise. As you feel your way through the give and take of this little sound’s power, hold your peace, take a whistle, let her rip.
