Correlation Number One
8-Channel Computer Music Composition
Correlation Number One is a work about the curious act of ‘listening to oneself listening’. An 8-channel computer music composition, it uses pairs of high frequency tones to generate distortion-product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAE) in the listener’s ears, which means that the sounds you hear are entirely subjective. In contrast to much contemporary sound studies discourse which favours a depiction of the ear as a passive receiver, defenseless against an onslaught of sound from all sides, the work proffers a notion of the ear as an active, productive sense organ – an instrument, in and of itself.