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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.26,0:00:02.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(gentle music)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.25,0:00:09.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(dynamic music)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.60,0:00:13.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(train screeching)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.47,0:00:15.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I'm not really an artist.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.24,0:00:16.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never studied at art school.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.24,0:00:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I call myself a private ear.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.93,0:00:23.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've dedicated a lot of work
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.76,0:00:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to thinking about a politics of listening.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.96,0:00:30.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's quite different\Nto politics of speech,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.21,0:00:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where everyone should have a voice.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.88,0:00:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because where and when\Nthose voices are heard
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.24,0:00:37.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is just as important.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.56,0:00:40.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(dynamic music continues)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.50,0:00:43.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not truly understanding\Nhow that voice is heard,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.41,0:00:45.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you miss literally half the story.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.05,0:00:51.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Part of the work has been\Nto try to sort of define
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.24,0:00:53.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where those limits are,\Nthose limits of listening.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.34,0:00:56.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(dynamic music continues)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.48,0:01:07.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I began an acoustic investigation
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.23,0:01:10.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a prison that was\Nmodeled on this GDR archetype.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.11,0:01:13.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Mercedes-Benz of prisons in Syria,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.83,0:01:17.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the one I investigated,\Nis called Saydnaya.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.93,0:01:42.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These films and\Nperformances are a proposal
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.36,0:01:45.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to listen to people in ways\Nin which I think is adequate
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.27,0:01:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the kind of political\Nclaim that I'm making.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.52,0:01:48.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This listening tower has a...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.95,0:01:51.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a documentary, or in the news,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.09,0:01:52.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's really strict conventions
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.89,0:01:56.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the way we think we\Nshould listen to people.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.10,0:01:57.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the space of the museum,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.24,0:01:59.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have this chance to experiment
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.04,0:02:02.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the ways in which you\Ncan actually present a story.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.61,0:02:04.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(banging)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.24,0:02:08.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Walled Unwalled is a set of reflections
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.46,0:02:10.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from having conducted an investigation
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.62,0:02:13.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the Syrian regime prison\Nfor Amnesty International
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.44,0:02:15.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working with Forensic Architecture.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.86,0:02:18.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(crowd shouting)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.81,0:02:22.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Narrator] Since 2011,\Ntens of thousands of people
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.17,0:02:24.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have disappeared into a\Nvast network of prisons
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.84,0:02:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,run by the Syrian government.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.88,0:02:28.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many have been taken to Saydnaya.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.24,0:02:32.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amnesty International\Nand Forensic Architecture
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.79,0:02:36.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,traveled to Turkey to meet a\Ngroup of Saydnaya survivors.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.69,0:02:39.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We used architectural\Nand acoustic modeling
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.36,0:02:41.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to reconstruct the prison
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.22,0:02:44.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their experiences of detention.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.16,0:02:46.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the prisoners\Nwere held in darkness,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.53,0:02:49.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their memories depend on an\Nacute experience of sound.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.48,0:02:53.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I was tasked to lead the sound component
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.82,0:02:56.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of that investigation,\Nand to try and solicit
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.70,0:02:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as much information as we could
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.08,0:03:00.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about what was happening inside there.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.57,0:03:02.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, all of the\Nwitnesses insisted to me
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.91,0:03:04.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the walls of their cells
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.32,0:03:06.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shook from the beatings that took place
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.39,0:03:10.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in distant and unlocatable\Nareas of the prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.14,0:03:12.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Later I understood why.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.03,0:03:13.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The shape of the building,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.29,0:03:15.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the dimensions of the corridors,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.12,0:03:16.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meant that sounds made in the cells
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.95,0:03:18.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are reflected towards a central tower.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.61,0:03:22.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For them to kind of claw back knowledge
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.89,0:03:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the face of sensory deprivation
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.96,0:03:27.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a real powerful experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.82,0:03:29.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(person shouting)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.37,0:03:32.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The wall is something that was\Ncompletely containing them.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.19,0:03:35.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet, the leaking of the\Nsound through the wall,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.28,0:03:37.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was their way out to the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.95,0:03:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The wall was kind of porous.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.22,0:03:45.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Room one series\Ncloseup, take one. (claps)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.81,0:03:48.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- The whole idea with Walled Unwalled
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.24,0:03:51.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was to have this performance play out
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.72,0:03:54.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in an old recording studio.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.30,0:03:57.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything you see is shot\Nthrough that soundproof glass.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.81,0:04:00.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It all felt like a way of\Nspeaking about the prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.98,0:04:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in some point in the film
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.88,0:04:04.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you see someone flashing a light.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.56,0:04:06.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was flashing the\Nlight because there was no
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.39,0:04:08.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,audible communication through these walls.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.37,0:04:10.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, they were really soundproof.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.35,0:04:15.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, no wall on earth is impermeable.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.12,0:04:19.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, we're all wall, and no wall at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.95,0:04:26.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ironically, the more we are connected,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.19,0:04:31.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more walls are shown to\Nbe this sort of futile thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.23,0:04:34.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more we're invested\Nin protecting the border.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.46,0:04:37.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(somber music)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.01,0:04:40.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Borders are not lines.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.29,0:04:44.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are these layered\Nspaces, rich with history.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.58,0:04:53.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- There is a US border guard\Nsitting in that car there.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.17,0:04:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The engine stays running
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.64,0:04:59.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and his eyes remain laser\Nfocused on the main door.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.89,0:05:01.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(mysterious music)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.92,0:05:05.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each visitor who crosses\Nthe street over from the US
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.43,0:05:08.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,must also exit back into the US.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.91,0:05:11.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those who come from\Nthe right, from Canada,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.25,0:05:14.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,must not, under any circumstances,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.10,0:05:16.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even if they have a valid visa,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.32,0:05:18.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exit the library into the US.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.65,0:05:22.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The border cannot be crossed here.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.05,0:05:25.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, inside it's like the\Nborder doesn't even exist.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.25,0:05:30.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Technically, Agatha Christie\Nsits on a shelf on US soil,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.42,0:05:32.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while Iggy Pop's biography is in Canada.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.78,0:05:35.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Film Worker] A1-Eagle,\Ntake one. (claps)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.85,0:05:39.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- This library and opera\Nhouse were built on the border
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.63,0:05:42.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between Canada and America.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.19,0:05:43.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that seemed to me as a space in which
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.62,0:05:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could tell the story of borders,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.44,0:05:48.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,starting with that electrical tape
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.06,0:05:49.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that cuts through the library.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.71,0:05:52.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Expand on that and show all of the way
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.56,0:05:56.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which the border exists\Nas something that is absurd.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.90,0:06:02.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, they are this\Nsort of network of power
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.19,0:06:05.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is being exerted, sometimes\Nin completely lethal ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.86,0:06:12.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- When the murder took place,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.60,0:06:15.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the murderer and the\Nmurdered were actually
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.03,0:06:17.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in entirely different jurisdictions.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.08,0:06:21.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Though Mesa's firearm was stretched out
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.36,0:06:25.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into Mexican territory,\Nhis feet were three inches
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.35,0:06:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,behind the American border.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.62,0:06:31.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If Agent Mesa had stepped over the line,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.19,0:06:33.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there would be no question of Mexico
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.96,0:06:37.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,demanding his extradition\Nfor murdering their citizen.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.26,0:06:39.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(haunting music)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.72,0:06:42.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the Supreme Court,\Na hypothetical emerged.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.50,0:06:45.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If Mesa could be prosecuted,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.90,0:06:48.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could anyone killed abroad by a US agent
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.72,0:06:50.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seek justice in an American court?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.08,0:06:52.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.24,0:06:56.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- It was such a close decision, five-four.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.36,0:07:00.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What swayed it was to recognize
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.66,0:07:03.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that should they convict Agent Mesa,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.96,0:07:06.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they would be opening up\Nthemselves to litigation
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.69,0:07:11.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of every drone strike, because\Nit's the same story, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.19,0:07:13.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Someone pulls the trigger in Arizona
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.29,0:07:15.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and somebody dies in Yemen.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.37,0:07:17.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(haunting music)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.37,0:07:31.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I was born in Jordan.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.74,0:07:33.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I also grew up in Yorkshire.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.47,0:07:37.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was exposed to the\NDIY music scene in Leeds.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.73,0:07:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(dynamic music)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.81,0:07:44.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I spent years abusing my hearing,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.82,0:07:48.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,playing in bands and\Nmaking a lot of noise.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.03,0:07:51.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It showed me how organization around sound
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.03,0:07:54.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and music was a political act\Nto bring together communities.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.23,0:08:00.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Works that I make are cross-disciplinary.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.42,0:08:02.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they demand the help\Nand resources of people
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.98,0:08:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are really in their discipline.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.04,0:08:06.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's always a a team effort.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.99,0:08:10.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(moaning, clanking and tapping)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.95,0:08:31.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The beginning was great.\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.44,0:08:33.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- The sort of the keys.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.02,0:08:33.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Can you hear that, I don't?\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.96,0:08:36.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think starting with those details,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.03,0:08:37.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working with the knocker,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.62,0:08:41.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then moving between the\Nsort of the lollipop on that,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.16,0:08:42.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then to this.\N- Do you like this?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.42,0:08:44.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you like opening this, or\Nshould I stay away from it?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.55,0:08:45.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- No, no, do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.38,0:08:47.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was really good.\N- I'm kind of like...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.51,0:08:49.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(moaning)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.20,0:08:54.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I specifically didn't\Nwant a sound effects artist
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.57,0:08:56.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to play those doors because\NI knew that they would
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.97,0:08:58.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know what they're doing with them.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.83,0:09:02.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That they would sort of fall\Ninto a disciplinary mode
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.16,0:09:04.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which they're able to\Ndo things with those doors
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.38,0:09:06.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is part of their professional world.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.97,0:09:08.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(tapping)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.79,0:09:11.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to see what else those\Ndoors would be able to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.23,0:09:15.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Making whale calls, then slamming them
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.96,0:09:19.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and bringing them back\Nto their door-like form.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.10,0:09:21.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that was really important to the story
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.96,0:09:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was trying to tell\Nabout acoustic memory.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.40,0:09:28.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(mallets banging and tapping)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.31,0:09:38.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sound effects are really\Nkey in the way we can both
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.01,0:09:40.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,solicit memory, but the way we also
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.23,0:09:42.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,commit those sounds to our memories.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.69,0:09:47.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The doors in Saydnaya Prison
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.31,0:09:49.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had a similar effect on its survivors.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.35,0:09:50.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, none of the door sounds I played
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.91,0:09:53.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,satisfied Samara's acoustic memory.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.10,0:09:54.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We found one that was okay,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.87,0:09:57.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he kept telling me\Nto raise the volume.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.20,0:10:00.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sounds were getting louder and louder,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.60,0:10:02.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until finally I played him the sound
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.43,0:10:04.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a huge metal door slamming
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.20,0:10:07.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the reverb set to\NNotre Dame Cathedral.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.93,0:10:11.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Upon hearing this, Samara was taken aback.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.73,0:10:15.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He stopped me and he said,\Nthis sound was present.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.09,0:10:17.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was the exact sound, not of the door,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.46,0:10:19.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the sound of sheets of bread
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.65,0:10:22.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being dropped to the\Nground outside my cell.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.62,0:10:25.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(pounding)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.81,0:10:29.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We would use a lot of sound effects
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.46,0:10:32.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for those ear witness\Ninterviews to really get to
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.16,0:10:34.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sound that we were talking about.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.02,0:10:36.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And sort of also place them in space.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.17,0:10:40.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I built this\Ninventory of sound effects.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.50,0:10:44.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(banging tapping and popping)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.07,0:10:45.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Based on all the legal\Ncases I'd worked on,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.96,0:10:48.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what would I've used\Nin a case where I need
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.45,0:10:52.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to recreate a ricochet off\Na border fence in Palestine?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.06,0:10:54.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(banging and crashing)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.84,0:10:58.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They really were very important\Nin the case of Saydnaya.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.17,0:10:59.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The metal door, a wooden door,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.64,0:11:02.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a car door, adapted for my means.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.46,0:11:04.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the idea that you\Ncould really construct
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.86,0:11:07.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a whole array of door sounds\Nfrom just this one instrument.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.51,0:11:11.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Goalkeeper gloves.\NThe granite stone tiles.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.23,0:11:14.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Green coconut, shouting.\NIce cream truck.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.07,0:11:16.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where is the gun?\NMusic box.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.02,0:11:19.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(airplane whooshing)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.67,0:11:30.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the last 15, 16 years, Israeli jets
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.21,0:11:32.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and drones flying over\NLebanon have created
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.85,0:11:36.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a kind of acoustic fearscape\Nfor people living in Lebanon.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.49,0:11:42.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Air Pressure began as a\Nacoustic investigation.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.05,0:11:44.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(keyboard tapping)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.99,0:11:48.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a website that sought to produce
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.03,0:11:49.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some understanding\Nabout what was happening
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.86,0:11:51.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the air over Lebanon.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.23,0:11:56.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm trying to, you know, Shazam the skies.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.55,0:12:00.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hear a unmanned aerial\Nvehicle, identify that.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.18,0:12:01.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hear a fighter jet, identify that.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.74,0:12:03.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then start to hear the difference
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.12,0:12:05.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between an F16, an F35.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.94,0:12:11.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We produced the first database
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.37,0:12:13.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of these military aircraft in the sky.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.77,0:12:16.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the numbers were staggering.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.16,0:12:20.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,22,111 of them over the last 15 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.61,0:12:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(somber music)
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.04,0:12:29.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you see them interlinking\Nand overlapping over time.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.37,0:12:30.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not a map of a territory,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.87,0:12:33.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's actually a kind\Nof cartography of pressure
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.51,0:12:34.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's being exerted down.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.98,0:12:36.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It happens to be the shape of Lebanon
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.69,0:12:38.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simply because the aircrafts have covered
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.79,0:12:40.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the entirety of the country.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.90,0:12:47.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not a work about whose\Nair it is being violated.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.07,0:12:49.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The air doesn't belong\Nto the Lebanese either.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.74,0:12:52.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a work about how\Nyou turn the air violent,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.59,0:12:55.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how sound is really an\Neffective way to do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.84,0:12:58.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(airplane whooshing)
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.80,0:13:01.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can see every tweet and video made
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.92,0:13:04.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,referring to these aircraft in the sky.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.71,0:13:06.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see people joking.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.54,0:13:08.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some people say, "Oh,\Nlook at these planes.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.55,0:13:11.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're going so low they're\Ngonna cut my laundry wires."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.07,0:13:13.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Other people, you can tell they're scared.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.71,0:13:16.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They say, "Look what they\Nhave in their arsenal.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.23,0:13:17.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,May God protect us."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.73,0:13:19.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Other people simply use this hashtag
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.74,0:13:20.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,حربي بالاجواء
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.58,0:13:22.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which means war in the atmosphere.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.69,0:13:26.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The website circulated very heavily
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.85,0:13:29.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because no one had ever\Ndone that work before.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.19,0:13:32.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in fact, the Lebanese\Ngovernment who contacted me later
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.70,0:13:36.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had basically told me that\Nthey had never even done this.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.12,0:13:39.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(airplane whooshing)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.18,0:13:41.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was producing Air Pressure,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.37,0:13:43.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it got all this\Ninternational attention,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:43.56,0:13:45.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it occurred to me that 10 years had passed
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.57,0:13:47.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of doing this kind of\Nacoustic investigation,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:47.87,0:13:50.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that it needed its own kind of space.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.61,0:13:53.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well I decided to start\Nthis agency called Earshot.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.13,0:13:55.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(dynamic music)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.24,0:13:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're a small team of people.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.49,0:14:05.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's been a greater\Nawareness of why sound matters
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.58,0:14:07.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for open source investigations.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.27,0:14:11.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd learned enough doing these projects
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.49,0:14:13.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I could also start\Nto train other people
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.41,0:14:16.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do this work, and we could\Nstart to build our own agency
Dialogue: 0,0:14:16.56,0:14:18.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for acoustic and audio analysis.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.28,0:14:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanna build greater cognizance for what
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.80,0:14:29.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,good listening can do, and\Nwhat story sound can tell.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.22,0:14:34.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's so much more to do,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.56,0:14:37.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so many other ways in\Nwhich we can give people
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.83,0:14:39.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the space and time to be heard.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.67,0:14:44.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(dynamic music)\N(people chattering)