Just yesterday as I was in the laneway I had another me just hearing sounds that makes me question if I am actually hearing something or if I’m imagining something that does not exist again? It have this happen rather frequently in my everyday life hearing sounds that does not exist, so I decided to find out if it has any connection to my hearing impairment. After finding out it is actually rather normal, I plan to incorporate this in my project since I’m already using sound and create the movement of uncovering – I decided it would make sense for me to add in the part where the visitor to experience as such as I do like one of my keywords – wave, one of the definitions is a sudden occurrence of or increase in a phenomenon, feeling, or emotion. I wish for the visitor to have the sudden changes of feelings from intrigued, surprised, confusion, fear?, comfort all felt in one space.

Theresa M. Marschall, Branislava Ćurčić-Blake, Sanne G. Brederoo, Remco J. Renken, Mascha M.J. Linszen, Sanne Koops, Iris E.C. Sommer,
Spontaneous brain activity underlying auditory hallucinations in the hearing-impaired, Cortex, Volume 136, 2021, Pages 1-13, ISSN 0010-9452, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.12.005.

“Auditory hallucinations, the perception of a sound without a corresponding source, are common in people with hearing impairment.”

“The classical form of AH in hearing loss is musical hallucinations, and sometimes musical hallucinations are considered a synonym for hallucinations caused by hearing loss. However, this assumption is not correct, as hallucinations in hearing loss can take many different forms. In fact, the most commonly perceived form of complex hallucinations in hearing-impaired patients is voices (49%), followed by music (36%). Simpler forms of hallucinations, such as bells (24%), also occur in this patient group (Linszen et al., 2019). Tinnitus (a ringing, clicking, buzzing, hissing, or roaring sound) can also be viewed as a simple auditory hallucination, although it is usually not defined as such (Ffytche & Wible, 2014).”

“For AH in hearing loss, the deafferentation theory suggests that the diminished sensory input from the peripheral auditory system to the higher cortical areas leads to insufficient stimulation of cortical perception areas. As a reaction to this imbalance, the brain tries to reestablish homeostasis by reducing the threshold to detect activity. Consequently, the amount of spontaneous activity detected along the auditory pathways of the brain increases. This spontaneous activity is then misinterpreted as an external auditory stimulus and form the source of the AH (De Ridder et al., 2014; Linszen, Brouwer, Heringa, & Sommer, 2016; Vanneste, Song, & De Ridder, 2013).”

Since the beginning of the project I wished to incorporate sound into my space. However, got lost on the visual aspect of it, since I was still unsure how I would incorporate the sound in. But now I think the sound I need is the hidden in the space but when people enter the space they tend to think of their experience of moving through itself. So it made me think about the hidden could be someone else’s experience in the space as it is not relevant to oneself. So could I make the hidden sounds made by other people? – the footsteps, voices, movement etc.

Types of sound to record on site:

• voices
• music
• bells?
• ringing (someone’s phone?)
• clicking
• buzzing
• roaring (car engine)

Levels of the sound will vary generating immediate transposing reaction in the visitors.