Rish Rush // רִשְׁרוּשׁ

Sound Installation (3 stereo audio tracks)

2019

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“Listening offers another point of view, an alternative perspective on how things are, producing new ideas on how they could be… and how we could include sound’s invisible formlessness in a current realization and valuation of what we understand to be the actual world.” [Salome Voegelin - Sonic Possible Worlds, 2014]

 

How can invisible formless sound be represented by a human voice and transformed into a tangible form like a word in a language? What kind of sonoric experience is created when we listen to a foreign language, where the words are neutralized from their meaning? How can a change in an environment affect our listening practices and the way we experience and vocalize sounds?

 

RishRush (=the Hebrew onomatopoeia word for “the rustling of leaves”) is a voice-sound triptych that travels around a multi-lingual onomatopoeic space, loosening the connection between word and its meaning or between a sound and its function in an agreed sign system; it is a recollection of the initial reverberation of things into a language; an invitation to examine the formation of shapeless sound into a material and to gaze upon the fragile tension that exists between the actual vocal expression and its object: all the sounds in the world, including the silence.

 

The illustration was made by artist Iris Chun-Tzu Chang: “Listening to RishRush, I imagine and transform the movement of sound into illustration, a map of where dialogues happen.”

 

Mastering: Marco Tarantino

Special thanks to Dafna Kron, Yoav Ronat, Yael Gaulan, Jon Gordon, LCC Sound Arts department and LCC students who were interviewed for this project.

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Presented at Hundred Years Gallery (London, UK) and the Israeli Centre for Digital Art (Holon, IL).

 

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