What Survived The Noise
THE INSOMNIA TAPES
After enough time without sleep, thought is replaced by instinct.
Ordinary concerns become difficult to remember.
The distinction between what’s important and what’s unimportant begins to blur.
Everything starts to feel equally significant.
A streetlight.
A bird.
A parking lot.
A distant voice.
A television left on in another room.
The world grows louder than the mind.
THE INSOMNIA TAPES began as an attempt to document what sleeplessness made visible.
I walked through the city each night until morning.
I recorded what continued to insist upon attention.
Streetlights.
Apartment windows.
Traffic signals.
Cars driving by.
Birds gathering on power lines before dawn.
The hum of a refrigerator in an otherwise silent room.
Shops opening.
Footsteps.
Material accumulated faster than it could be reviewed or understood.
What began as documentation gradually became an accumulation of fragments without hierarchy.
THE RESTLESS ROOM
Participants enter a room constructed from THE INSOMNIA TAPES.
The room is filled with layered sound.
Projected imagery.
Intermittent light.
Birds.
Squirrels.
Traffic.
Refrigerators.
Parking lots.
Garbage trucks.
City buses.
Diners.
Distant conversations.
Pieces of language.
Pieces of memory.
Pieces of song.
The environment gradually becomes denser.
Foreground and background become difficult to distinguish.
Objects that should be insignificant become impossible to ignore.
Everything demands attention.
Nothing can be attended to.
At the moment attention can no longer follow the noise, the room abruptly changes.
Images turn to nothing but light.
Exhausted emotion.
The body arrives before the mind.
Then silence.
The projections disappear.
The lights fade to black.
The sound stops.
Only a single chair remains.
Participants sit in silence and are invited to listen to the room, the building, and themselves.
Following the experience, participants are asked a single question:
What survived the noise?
Their responses are recorded.
In this way, THE RESTLESS ROOM rebuilds itself from what participants could not forget.
SOUND COMPOSITION
(Recording Archive, March 2026 - Present) Composed from audio recordings gathered between evening and morning.
VISUAL COMPONENT
(Video Archive, 2023-2026) Composed of videos gathered between evening and morning.
Editing in progress.