I WAS THERE WHERE THERE WAS NO SILENCE

There is no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound. - John Cage

The life is full of sound, and most of them are noise which is defined as unwanted sound. Collecting, editing and compositing the sound from my daily life was a way to review my life. In this way, I found that, there was no silence. Even the recording from my room when I was sleeping late in the night, there was still sound. Although the sound could be barely heard, through the computer program there were still sound waves. Sound wave is the representation of sound, which was created to visualise the sound. In this way, sound could be seen through waves, even those sound is out of the limitation of human hearing ability. Sound wave has been played a lot to explore the  possibilities of sound through the visual way. However the result was that, the sound could not be manipulated properly without hearing. Most of the sound in this piece was heavily manipulated to create a imaginary experience which is totally different from the original sound from daily life. If the sound opens the door to the fantasy. Then, the multiple bell-like sound that went through the whole piece keeps pulling audience back to the reality. The final editing has been done to this composition was adding a short amount of silence and followed by another bell-like sound at the end. The silence was a satire to the reality which is full of noise. It also increased contrast for the piece. Furthermore, it gave the chance for the bell-like sound to stand out. The last bell-like sound dose not only mean the end of the composition, but also pulls the audience out of the fantasy, back to the reality.