Jacob Kirkegaard
The work is composed from tones generated in the inner ear. These tones, called spontaneous otoacoustic emissions (or SOAE), are produced – without external stimulation – in the ears of some people. All ‘ear chords’ were recorded, filtered, analyzed, and then interpreted for voices. This choral work thereby connects two intimate organs of our body: the ear and the voice. The ears are the composers, the voices perform the tones emitted by the ears.