Peace is noise:

Sounds, in noisy city life, or in peaceful country living, can both be so fluid and ambient to our place in time that sometimes peace is noise.

City streets and urban settings have a totally different set of circumstances, but have parallels with regard to basic human programmed instincts. Christmas carols are warm, and promote togetherness; were the disengagement of a firearms hammer striking a live round of ammunition can mean life or death.

A faint siren noise becoming increasingly louder would be the complimentary noise that follows a gunshot. Noises can lead us to understand and acknowledge peace in the message, or danger, or they can be soothing, static, angry, happy etc.

In thinking about the norm(s) of peace in sound, I am thinking about the many cases were popularized media is disbursed through networks of communication, which are geared to captivate certain types regardless of oppositions. Our perspectives of viewing, hearing and feeling can be programmed by these networks or by our own senses of acceptance, appreciation, morals, etc. In creating different sounds, I found that I could scratch surfaces, tap, whistle, breathe, rub or pick up musical instruments or pots and pans to record noise and to create a composition, that is, in the least, interesting to me. This experiment allows to really look into culture with noise being the precursor