majority of the ambient environment is still transmitted through voices

Our own voice is out most trusted and familiar

the act of speaking appears more important than the uniqueness of voice

Every image is also the presence of something absent

the understanding of language assumes in-between spaces, interface-indeterminacy

voice- carries meaning but it itself is blind to it

Voice- in semiotics the voice is known as the signifier, that makes the certain content, the ‘signified’, able to be externalised and absorbed.

When recorded- the voice disappears behind the display. The purest recordings are those in which only that which was recorded is heard and not the recording medium.

Older recording mediums display the undesirable side effects of the recording medium, needle scratches, rotation of the record, mechanical white noise.

Writing- As the first historical record of signifier and signified seperating.

The corporeal/ Sensual aspects of speach in the act of reading happen quietly, and can let the sound-conception live in the mind.

Christian Marclay

Janet Cardiff, George Bures, Opera for a small room. Mechanical noises, scratches, included intentionally.

Melik Ohanian, giving dignity to the white noise usually filtered out. Zona de Silencio. His recording attempt was interupted by the magnetic field of the environment, highlighting the the meaning of process, voices without a signified, the medium without a message.

Jaques Derrida, Occidental thinking about the voice gives privelage to writing. Metaphysics sees writing as a medium, but not the voice, the voice has presence of meaning and knows no division. ‘hearing oneself speaking promises an absolute inwardness and a consummate identity, writing, which is only an externalisation, cannot compete with it.