Image: Christof Migone, Hit Parade (Winnipeg), 2011, Robert Szkolnicki
Talk may be cheap but sound, however, can be incredibly enriching. The audible experience offers a wealth of possibilities of sensations and reactions. Sound – whether music, speech or noise – is how we code, frame, articulate and engage. Curiously, it is defined by its very absence. Hence its deprivation can be isolating and discombobulating, its celebration uplifting and connecting.