Sound was not implemented due to time constraints, but Reviewer 3's suggestion highlighted its potential.

I looked into Sudanese music, rooted in haqibah and merdoum traditions, using oud and hand percussion , was itself suppressed under al-Bashir's regime, making it a direct analogue to my project's themes. If implemented, the app would open with traditional Sudanese folk instrumentation before gradually degrading it , static, signal dropout, and silence mirroring documented internet shutdown events in real time.

Forms in Nature (Chromosphere and Kamp, 2016) demonstrates how ambient, textural sound deepens emotional engagement without overwhelming visuals. For my project, sound would operate as interference, static, degraded audio, and deliberate silence mirroring the visual fragmentation already embedded in the interface. As Bridle (2018) argues, networked systems produce opacity; silence within an interface the user expects to be active communicates that opacity more viscerally than any visual element alone. If developed further, audio would be implemented would be , minimal, glitched, and deliberately incomplete.

References

Chromosphere (2016) Forms in Nature: Understanding Our Universe. Available at: https://vimeo.com/155262093 (Accessed: 5 May 2026).

Cone, J. (2016) ‘Forms in Nature: in-depth process with Chromosphere and David Kamp’, Motionographer, 1 March. Available at: https://motionographer.com/2016/03/01/forms-in-nature-in-depth-process-with-chromosphere-and-david-kamp/ (Accessed: 5 May 2026).

Bridle, J. (2018) New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future. London: Verso.