ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts a sort of science fiction of sound in India's new media assemblage. It suggests that speculative fiction is the best mode to capture the biomorphic unconscious of media assemblages. The chapter analyses that in the contemporary mobile handset in India the quality of sound is generally thought of as secondary or supplementary to the network or optical features of the device. It explores how does sound interact, connect and disrupt other senses such as tactility, vision and proprioception that emerge through this bodymachine assemblage. The machinic desire of the mobile is maximized in the force of proximation. Camera phones have affected not only people's photographic practices but also their post-production mode of communication. Through its capacity to capture a moment as it unfolds, as well as to share these 'displaced moments' via wireless communication networks, the mobile has 'complicated the dichotomy of the visible public domain with the invisible private domain'.
