ETHAN MARSHALL COHEN

A selected entry for the Onassis Cultural Centre's Plug-In radio play series, this piece uses a hybridization of jarring and surreal sound design with foreboding music to immerse the listener in the protagonist's lonely and increasingly paranoid inner monologue.

Set in the protagonist's apartment on a Sunday afternoon, the boundary between their thoughts, diegetic sound, and sonic hallucination becomes indistinguishable, the sonic phenomena a collage of overlapping and overwhelming elements. Sound design is used experimentally to act both as accentuated incursions of everyday technological noise on the psyche, and as surreal embodied metaphors - like the ocean waves crashing close by - for claustrophobic loneliness.