Roaming silence

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

As I began losing my hearing, the urgency of archiving memory through everyday sounds became more pressing. This work invites viewers to gain a deeper understanding of hearing loss and relate to my personal experience of losing the ability to appreciate the mundane.
The audio was captured through my hearing aids in my hometown of Tucson, Arizona, USA in 2023. The audio highlights the fragility of sound at night in the desert, my father playing piano, conversations with my sister on the back of her truck looking up at the stars and my childhood friend singing about Tucson.
Tucson is a place that invites you to reset, reconnect and listen to the environment around you.
Recorded by Shaye Thiel.