The composition is based on the word “wait”, coming from the APS (Accessible Pedestrian Signal) voice found in the US pedestrian lights, which gives “walk” and “don’t walk” signals. When pressing the APS button, a recording comes out saying “wait” every few seconds, until the “walk” signal is given. This little piece takes the topic mehr licht from a negative point of view. APS signals are designed for blind or sight-disabled people, who have to “listen” to the lights, in a figurative way, instead of looking at them, fact that many times produces confusion when many of these recordings are found together in a big crossing, overlapping each other. As much as many sight-disabled people are used to this kind of systems, there’s also a big number of them that have difficulties adapting, especially when their condition was acquired at a later age.
The work re-constructs the word wait over time. A simple deconstruction of the word was made, in order to be able to re-build it later. Simple, because of being a short word of one syllable.
The base of the composition are the phonetics of each letter: /w/; /ə/; /i:/; /t/
Then the middle hiatus was added: /eɪ/
The word wait is constantly being reproduced throughout the composition in morse code.