K-h! ⟦ǂã̙⟧ explores the sounds of a baby, to consider pre-linguistic speech. From the age of one week to four months, vocal sounds of a baby have been recorded. The pitches and rhythms of these sounds have then been translated into western music notation. Subsequently, this notation has been translated into a visual music code, and embedded into a series of beadings. In this process, the wetness, bubbliness and fleshiness of the baby’s sounds have been lost; the voice has been separated from the body. This attempt to categorise the baby’s untranslatable sounds into two established systems, has diminished a language of individuality. However, through analysing the coded sounds, repetitions have emerged, creating patterns that otherwise may have been missed in the moment. Three essays on the voice, by Helen Johnson, Roslyn Orlando and Dr Adele Gregory, will accompany the exhibition.