The High Command (2007) is a site-specific electroacoustic composition created for the former communications room of a historic building on Lilenblum Street in Tel Aviv. For decades, this building concealed the secret headquarters of the Haganah high command — the underground military organization that laid the foundations for Israel’s defense forces.
In 2007, before planned renovations, the building was temporarily entrusted to artist and curator Hadas Kedar, who invited several artists to create works responding to its charged spaces. I was given the communications room, a small, austere chamber once used to transmit orders and relay information.
For this piece, I worked with recordings of historic Haganah leaflets and other archival sounds, processing and layering them with electronics to evoke the atmosphere of covert operations, urgency, and encoded messages. The composition was diffused through hidden speakers, immersing visitors in a sound world where fragments of the past whispered through the abandoned room.
The High Command was first installed October 4–31, 2007 as part of the High Command exhibition in Tel Aviv.