Salience Register collects sonic debris from algorithmic feeds where screams fold into pet videos, warfare coincides with cupcake tutorials, slogans circulate at identical scroll velocities. This material already shaped by what Zuboff calls behavioral surplus arrives with salience spikes and is specifically designed to grab neural attention through contrast, shock and familiarity.

Through time stretching and muffling these sonic fragments lose their sharpness. They dissolve into almost static states. Recognition falls apart. A scream becomes indistinguishable from a bark. What persists is “ghost audio”, infrastructural hum stripped of the high contrast cues that made it platform legible.

Salience here names both the neuroscientific standout quality and the body’s internal register of what rises above background noise. The performative work reverses platform functionality by stretching what was optimized for instant amplification. It becomes durational instability: Deprogramming (Wendy Chun): a process that dissolves programmability itself.

Post-phenomenology positions sound as reaching the body before interpretation, flowing through skin organs posture without consent. The work enhances this condition until attention must recalibrate toward incremental shifts rather than algorithmic spikes .Extractivism becomes audible as residue pressing on the nervous system long after content evaporates.

Exhibited at Wrangel66, Berlin, as part of CTM / Transmediale / Vorspiel, curated by Niki Maria Lore Pielsticker, exhibiting alongside Niki Danai Chania and Brad Nath​.