Voice Under Erasure: Viola’s Choral Visions and His Phonophobia
Voice Under Erasure: Viola’s Choral Visions and His Phonophobia

Summary/Abstract: Viola takes up important issues of consciousness and experience, issues which post-modern thought has only glossed in a most sophistic manner. The sound in The Hall of Whispers is an ill-mode of phonation. The vocal cords do not vibrate properly creating a disturbing “hissing” of voices incomprehensible. The voices are totally put under erasure in the Unspoken and Silent Mountain, which makes one think that if voice is ontologically related to body as well as to the soul, a voiceless body, deprived by the grain of the voice, or the flesh of the soul is a kind of simulacrum of body, a soulless spectrum. In that which concerns the faces from The Hall of Whispers, the effect is no less disturbing.

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