Hearing things
by Aaron Williamson ( 2001 )

"A man has been working in a windowless studio to make performances which nobody sees. After the event, the sounds produced by these performances are fed into speech recognition software. This transforms them into plausible poetry ... although they have been translated or composed from audible bangs, wallops, scrapes and sighs." Ian Hunt

Artist and writer Aaron Williamson, who is profoundly deaf, investigates the language produced by speech recognition software in his performances. Hearing things reflects on this process with a stream of prose poems and eerie images taken from the original happenings.

Hearing things is published and distributed by Book Works, it includes an introduction by Ian Hunt and has been designed by Phil Baines studio. Printed offset in an edition of 1,000 copies, 60 pages with colour images and a soft cover.

ISBN 1 870699 42 4 Price £12.50

Sharp-Talk

Malu Halasa was commissioned to write a text on Hearing things as part of Sharp-Talk, an online series of texts about Book Works titles. Click here to read the texts.