The Listening Microphone: High windows, 1997. Interactive sound and video installation. The Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle.

Who is speaking?
Who is listening?

The utterance of the voice invites a listener, someone to hear what is brought out from inside. Whether murmured, shouted or sung, utterance seeks a response affirmation or denial, a sign of understanding, resonance. One offers one's voice in order to hear the voice of another, the voice of the unseen, the voice of resounding space. To hear, one must first make a sound.

The Listening Microphone takes up the paradoxical space between the speaker and the listener, as one's voice amploifies the voices of others. The voice is displaced. The ensuing dialogue or duet is perhaps both alienating and full of surprising harmonies an opportunity for listening closely.