The Feel Phoneme

“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.