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Dreaming the Silence: An Un-trance-lated performance

This collaboration is a dialogue between NEWALL and Lauke resulting in a suite of audio visual pieces, each reworking the previous iteration. Roles are distinct: KL is the hearing sound designer. HN is the hearing impaired text writer and visual designer, constructing the visual creative critical commentaries which complement the sound and articulate the findings of the dialogues. Baguley (2002) describes tinnitus as noise perceived without corresponding auditory stimulation. Jastreboff (2004) states that tinnitus is not representable. This project challenged this and interrogated the stability of mainstream notions of silence and hearing; and resituates hearing disability. Research questions included: can tinnitus experience be simulated? It was found that tinnitus cannot be accurately simulated but that its experience and consequences can be expressed. A new question emerged: What are the performative possibilities inherent in the interference patterns between phantom sound and the failure of its simulation? Hybrid forms of creative artefact and critical documentation also emerged. Installations: This is what it sounds like: installation and paper, The Short Story Conference, Edge Hill University. There Must Be Silence: Emergency Festival, The Greenroom, Manchester, 2008; Health Faculty Open Day, Edge Hill University, 2008; Zeppelin 08 Festival, Centre of Contemporary Culture, Barcelona, 2008. In the Museum of Lost Sounds, Health Faculty Open Day, Edge Hill University, 2008; Deep Wireless Festival, New Adventures in Sound Art, Toronto, Canada, 2008 (festival performance & distributed CD); Silence Symposium, CpaRA, University of Chester, 2009. Dreaming the Silence: An un-trance-lated performance, sound + visual installation, previewed at Silent Voices: Forbidden Lives, IFTR Practice as Research Working Group Lab, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009; installed at The Narrative Practitioner, Glyndŵr University, Wrexham, 2010; IFTR/FIRT World Congress, Munich, 2010. Published online: Experiments & Intensities, Vol 2: Ex-Trauma: The Opposite of the Traumatic, 2012, University of Winchester Press, ISBN 978-1-906113-04-9.