1). What is silence for You? Is it a relief or anxiety?

Terminologically, it is absence of sound. But I have never experienced such a silence. I don’t think that “in the beginning was the Silence”. Our world is fill of sounds. Idealist philosopher and musicologist may need silence as the ontological basis such as “Nothing” in relation to “Being”. However,  as  a matter of fact, silence is mere the modus of sounds. So, silence can refer to various feelings not only “anxiety.” Also, I doubt the conceptual combination of “relief” and “anxiety”. In my understanding, anxiety is more immanent concept that cannot be relieved by some external means.

2). Do you remember the moment when you were conscious of the sound in a creative sense? Did you find any differences between the sound and the music if any?

Of course, I remember too many chances to listen to the creative sounds. They mean the sounds that inspired me to create something. They were not only music sounds but also non-music ones. In my simplistic understanding and differentiation, music is a part of great sound sphere. I would like to differentiate music from sound as long as the sound is in anticipated order and arrangement.

3). We have 5 holes in our head, and a lot of research try to discredit the leading eyesight sense, yet the hearing sense is a minor case. Of course we don’t mean the superiority of the senses but not seeing the potential which lies in other of them. How can we use human hearing sense?

To sense something is a holistic process and is not a division of so-called “five senses”. You don’t listen to sound by your ears only. You are involved in listening by all of your body elements. I am a radioartist and have been using airwaves for my works. For me, sounds are a part of airwaves and every sound accompanies airwaves to its oscillation. Five senses would not be able to catch such airwaves but our body should be always responding to them by some way. This area too would belong to radioart although sometimes it has been dominated by some weird occultism and magic.

4). What sounds do you find most irritating? Which ones are soothing?

It depends on when, where and how I am in my body conditions. Also, it is very difficult to describe by words how some sounds are and what they are.


5). We know that sound is a good way to possess the space. The amalgam of the city sounds which make noise is ambiguous. On the one hand it doesn’t represent nothing but a technological  function, eliminating the silence ( or the sounds in-situ), on the other hand it is abstract, so it can transform into musical pulp which enables the space control. Do artists and scientists still perceive the ecology of sound as socially and politically communicative, transgressive or enabling critical activity.

When you talk about “noise”, it does not seem to contain  the sounds of “noise music”. I think even “city noises” could become music sounds depending on the situation and arrangement. Ecology is basically technological and artificial adjustment. A good metaphorical and practical example  is a technology of noise-cancellation by using “antiphase”. As far as “possessing the space” is concerned, I am interested in airwaves and (supersonic) sounds of higher frequencies. Although we usually cannot directly perceive them, our living space is filled with various types of airwaves natural and artificial. Every sound that we perceive functions on the ground of airwaves. Airwaves control, filter, amplify, distort and so on. Also, airwaves affect our body and every life. The topic of airwave pollution is not new. Big companies of electric and electronic technology have been very concerned about airwave ecology. In different way and meaning, this could be an another theme for radioart too. I say “different” because controlling techniques to use airwaves are already introduced by the ruling system. There is a device to transmit higher sounds over 15,000 Hz or so in order to scatter younger loiterers in public spaces. Airwaves and sounds are used for new controlling method.

6). Gugliemo Marconi believed once that we can hear even the oldest sound adapting the right apparatus. Do you think that sound can resist the trace of time?

In terms of this theme, I think that Nikola Tesla would have thought it more seriously. But in pursuing it, we have to forget re-presenting idea of perception. Every past sound could be represented by recording device but it is not as it lively (in one time) was or  it happened. So, we could only listen to “the oldest sound” by not re-presenting way. Maybe noise-cancelling is a naive model to hear such a past sound.



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