Posted on 13th October 2025 by Amy Pix

Here is a field recording I took at the Unicorn Theatre on Saturday 11 Nov using a zoom handheld recorder. I was a participant in a group session for trans theatre-makers – this session was on working with sound and sonic dramaturgy.

The random sounds evoked from this kind of improvised exercise (we were instructed just to make sounds for a long duration of time created movements as you can hear in this sound object. It also prompted us to start thinking about how sound + text can make sound more like text and text more like sound. 

I included this recording in my audio fundamentals piece, exploring ‘trans noise’. This recording was quite literally of trans noise, as it was a room full of trans people all making noise together in various ways. Some of us used recorders, others their breath, or objects like an electric toothbrush. The recording feels like joyful in its expression of trans noise. You can hear laughter and the fun we are having being together and creating sounds with our (queer) bodies.