To hear on Sunday 13 and 20 March 2016, 14 - 21 Uhr:
Tinnitus Studies
by Hui Ye (China, Austria)
Hui Ye on 'Tinnitus Studies':
Tinnitus is an auditive perception of sounds arising without physical vibrations. The persons concerned hear sounds that don't exist in the world outside their bodies. This hearing experience is compulsive and utterly intimate.
By means of auditive as well as language tools the artist seeks possible approaches to this phenomenon to give a small insight to the inner worlds of perception and the sufferings of the persons concerned.
Through rendering audible the tinnitus sensations this utterly personal and also compulsive hearing experience can be simulated and thereby transformed into a shared sensation.
Hui Ye particularly refers to the following SOUNDACTIVISM Words by ohrenhoch:
"To what extent can we consider all of us as foreigners - as "others"?
How can we develop hybrid identities and more integrative spaces?"
Hui Ye: If somebody hears sounds that don't exist outside of her/his body it becomes an utterly intimate and unshareable hearing experience. For any other person there is no approach possible to a shared auditive experience of this sound world. In our every-day life where a shared hearing experience is also part of the social life, somebody with unshareable and hardly communicable experiences such as Tinnitus is consequently regarded as "other".
In the work - Tinnitus Studies, I try to create an integrative space for "Tinnitus Persons" by means of auditive imitations of Tinnitus sounds as well as by means of text/language.
Audio Field Report no. 43 / Sound activism 22: Interview with Hui Ye by Knut Remond. Limited edition audio cassette, 8 copies numbered. Available at 'ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen' (and hearable there on headphone in the archive space).
Hui Ye
Born in Canton, China;
2004-2011, master's studies in composition and electroacoustic composition at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, master's degree in 2011;
2010-2014, Diploma degree in Digital Art at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien;
Since 2014, Master's studies in TransArts at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien.
2007, Award Theodor Körner Stiftung; 2012, scholarship BMUKK;
2015, Government scholarship for composition of BKA.
Hui Ye lives and works in Vienna as a composer, media artist and electroacoustic musician. Her works include numerous instrumental and electroacoustic compositions, sound installations and video installations, drawings and graphic works, as well as audiovisual productions for dance and performance projects. With her work she often focuses on the relations between the hearable and the visible, the transformation between auditive and visual elements.