The experience of sound can at times be a form silence, not so much for the ears, but for the mind. If we close our eyes to focus purely on listening, the outside world as we are used to knowing it gradually fades from consciousness and ultimately disappears. We forget ourselves: the room is no longer there; we are no longer there – even the sound is no longer there. For a moment the mind is still, all that remains is an experiencing of sound.

All that remains is a “listening” suspended in nothing.

The piece features excerpts from archive interviews and recordings of Alan Watts, Delia Derbyshire, Antony Gormley, Denis Smalley, AL Kennedy, Francis Dhomont, Eliane Radigue, John N. Gray, and Daniel Cioccoloni. It references the forms, ideas, and sounds of some of the seminal works in the radiophonic/acousmatic tradition (Inventions for radio – Delia Derbyshire, Sous le regard d’un soleil noir – Francis Dhomont, Névé – Denis Smalley), as well as Francis Poulenc’s chorale O Magnum Mysterium.

Composed, recorded, and engineered by: Daniel Cioccoloni
Additional sounds: Giovani Tancredi, E-Cor Ensemble
Additional field recordings: Felix Blume