Pushtone, a work made during the wonderful ‘Operation Himmelblick’ residency on a shopping centre carpark roof in wedding.The notification tones of our devices, or those of others, trigger various auto-emotional reactions, from excitement and joy to dread. On some level, this work seeks to disconnect these pavlovian responses, through shifting the context and frequency of these sounds into something almost alive, buzzing with an unexpected musicality. The notification tone also seems to have invaded and carved something else out of our daily lives, replacing the background noises of the world with a new prescient lack of sound, loudly existing only as anticipation of the notification: the empty absence of a message or update, only calmed by an inevitable chime. Sometimes while shopping or making love we may find we have accidentally freed ourselves of this existential confusion that we pay for and carry with us at all times, but then, dingding.