![]() ![]() Windows and walls that separate the outdoors from the indoors are often soundproofed or covered with heavy curtains that sometimes serve as sound barriers. The window separates the safety and privacy of the room tone from the outdoor ambience of a thriving communal environment, as if the windowpane were the architecturally constructed boundary between indoor and outdoor realities. I embrace the sonically approaching walls and enhanced silences and ignore the muffled sounds of wind to feel secure. My confinement is defined by the sense of domesticity within this enclosed space. ![]() They merge and replace my search for freedom. The moving and the static and the distance between them grow beyond a known arithmetic. ![]() As I search for the window, another car horn rings out. The walls merge with my skin, and the built environment surrounds my body. I can listen to my desire for freedom inside the close confines of this room and let my thoughts regain their innocence. As the car horn dissolves into the sounds of houses being constructed in the urban neighborhood, I appreciate how my indoor ambience reflects an encounter between private and public space as their sounds intermingle and subtly coalesce to form a fertile room tone. Reflections of the sound within the room and their fading resonances convey the atmosphere of interactions with lived and remembered experiences of the outdoors. I have nothing to say to the objects in my interior environment while the car horn sounds outside through the neighborhood outdoor sounds provide the interior with an essential sense of place. The intruding wind and its muffled sounds, sifting through the porous windowpane, take over and enhance the fragments of silence, even those left over from yesterday. I look for freedom inside the close confines of a room the walls slowly move towards me the geometry of my environment remains in flux. ![]()
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