Sensory Overload of Sounds

Dec. 2020
Frankfurt am Main, Germany


Have you ever considered what sound looks like?
Or what kinds of space and movement create sounds?
I heard that he could not clearly see the depth of the field.
In the two-dimensional space,
He must shake his body back and forth
to help himself know the position and the environment.

From living with my autistic brother for more than 25 years and my previous research in special education school. They have their unique way of reading voice and walk, they walked along the wall or any objects. It is the way to shape the space and deal with the world.



What is sensory of sounds?

John Cage experienced sound in a silent room with the sound of his nervous system in operation and the circulation of blood in the 1950s. And he said:” Therefore, even if I remain silent, I was, under certain circumstances, musical.”; Xenakis described the sound of burning charcoal which cut into one-second fragments and raise them together in Philips Pavilion, "lines of sound moving in complex paths from point to point in space, like needles darting from everywhere."; Alvin Lucier’s project, I am sitting in a room, shows pure resonant harmonies and tones of the room itself, by layering the recordings.

There have thousands of questions that I ask myself every day. Why are we so different? What is the meaning behind his motion?
“The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism”,written by Naoki Higashida, depicted the inner voice of Autism, answered my questions somehow. While they see an object, they look the details first; while they listen to the others, they are looking at the voice with all of their sense organs. Further, their memory is not linear. It is more like a pool of dots. They always have to pick up the dots.

I’m not sure what kinds of memory pool he has. In my pool. I can find he was running away from the moving shadows of trees; the leaves were rustling in the wind…

In Curtis Roads’ book, Microsound, "As sound passes from one-time scale to another it crosses perceptual boundaries. It seems to change quality. This is because human perception processes each time scale differently."



My brother has his comfort corners with the boundary he draws. He always places a machine to play a repeated song, and turn the train video on with the correct time when the train is ready to move in the real world. He is tripping the space and time, move the sounds into another scale. Then, overlap them together.
How is the space composed?

In this empty room, you can hear architectural materials and accessories, which already existed while it built.
These spatial frames divide the space physically, visually and auditory.