Lyric will not reach anyone & anywhere (2014)

A video work shot with a high-speed camera, depicting a man (the artist himself) screaming while expelling black liquid underwater.

The on-screen text consists of the words being screamed — they are the lyrics.

The work was created by noting the affinity between the music of doom metal and sludge — genres that riff on the same phrase at drastically reduced speed and deep bass — and the properties of high-speed footage, which produces slow motion and lowers the pitch of audio.

The vocal technique known as "guttural," employed in this work and in these genres, involves screaming in an intentionally distorted growl produced by severely constricting the throat, rendering the words almost entirely unintelligible in most cases. It hovers constantly between semantic meaning and material texture — resembling the voice of an infant.

In this work, each word — for example, "I," "LOVE," "HATE," "NEWYORK" — is recorded individually, and the installation is configured so that these are played back at random, generating various sentences (e.g., "I hate love," "NewYork hate I," etc.).