My degree piece is an interpretation of a home wall. The starting point for its creation was the experience of prolonged involuntary exposure to noise from my brother living in the next room in the family home. In later stages, especially at the time of creating the sound layer, I focused on the social aspects of noise and its presence in living spaces. An important point of reference for me was Mark Slouka’s essay Listening for Silence: Notes on the Aural Life and the phenomenon of the commodification of silence described by him.

Sound plays a central role in the installation, vibrating the wall by means of contact speakers. The sound layer consists of a nine-minute composition of rhythmic soundscapes, composed from the recordings of noises I collected over the course of a year.