You hear a ringing, hissing or buzzing that nobody else can hear. Your brain creates this sound. It happens after hearing damage, loud noise, or a head injury. The sound appears where damaged nerve endings used to send signals to the brain.
Not to explain tinnitus. To let you feel it.
It started with my own ear. A high, thin ring that arrived one night and never left. Loudest in the quiet, impossible to point to. It's something impossible to explain to anyone who couldn't hear it.
The investigation began as a way to understand what was happening inside my own head.
I went looking for an answer across every system that claimed one, and found, mostly, that the condition resists all of them.
There's always a sound of ocean waves hissing in my ears.
Living with tinnitusIt's been years since I've slept in silence.
The cost of the conditionI've been forced to stay away from concerts, theatres, and live events.
Isolation and limitationNone of the research could be shown as facts. So it was translated into image, sound, and silence. The invisible was given a frame.
In the screenplay, the ringing isn't described it's staged. Sound design carries what dialogue can't: the moment the noise “starts and intensifies” until the character can no longer think.
