"You should be asking me: What is this film music? What music do we hear that the child can't, that the people looking for heirlooms or potatoes in the rubble can't? Air looms. I am sorry to tell you what to ask. But there is always music playing that we cannot hear: beneath twenty hertz or higher than twenty thousand. We are deaf to the bats singing in ultrasound, or the elephants conversing in their infrasound, slow waves that travel miles and pass through rock. We did not know the elephants spoke until someone accidentally sped up a field recording ... But none of us truly knows what's in the air; that is one of the few universals. A negative universal. The air is alive with messages. Messengers, angels." "Negative angels"
—Ben Lerner, Transcription
