Shir Eres (Lullaby).

White Noise.

During the process of creating this piece, white noise took on a new meaning in my life. Once a symbol of something superhuman and electronic — like a blank television screen or a radio searching for a signal — it became a lullaby: human, warm, and familiar, which my eldest daughter falls asleep to it almost every night.
The electronic white noise, streaming from my phone's speaker during bedtime, muffles the sounds of the outside world and helps her drift off to sleep. It gives her a sense of calm and safety. to her, it is the sound she heard while developing in the womb — wrapped in layers of warmth and protection — primal, ancient, human sounds.

I’ve noticed that instinctively, while trying to lull her to sleep, I produce white noise myself — a soft, gentle “shhh”. I'm not sure who it soothes more — her or me — a quiet testament to the human and ancient essence of white noise.

In my piece Shir Eres (Lullaby in Hebrew) I explore the ways in which white noise can exist: in its warm, womb-like form — soothing, protective, sleep-inducing — and in other forms, ones that seep into the world of dreams and take on different faces each time.