Tim Meacham

 
Glass Choir 2019
Hearing aids and drinking glasses. (My mother's hearing aid collection playing part of her glass collection)

Hearing aids listening and "singing" to each other through feedback and the resonance of glasses. The glasses, having spent years unused in a display case (waiting for the party that never happened), are liberated and activated through the addition of hearing aids. Their individual "songs" continually change, as the aids find the resonance of each glass and pause, only to begin the search again. The glass choir formed itself unnoticed and quietly, through the act of being left. There were no auditions, there isn't a conductor, and there are no rehearsals. The glasses slept for decades behind glass, and accepted the hearing aids as the house was cleared, waiting for the moment when they would find their voice. The glasses felt their own substance through the soft vibration and purring of the hearing aids. Like homunculi, the hearing aids found their nests and curled up in the base of each glass, trembling like newly born things.