“Whisper Study started out as an exercise in exploring basic tape
techniques in the studio, using the whispered voice as sound material. It’s
based on the sentence "When there is no sound, hearing is most alert", a
quote from the Indian mystic Kirphal Singh in Naam or Word. The content of
that sentence appealed to me. I thought a lot about it and then decided I
was going to whisper that sentence. I ended up with this very quiet
recording of my whispered voice. In doing this, I was challenging myself,
because whispered sounds in an analog studio create the issue of hiss and
added noise.”
