Sighing

 Sighing is the sound of the body as it vacates itself, as it experiences the sensation of a creeping loss, of something falling through oneself to resolutely exit out of the mouth. In this sense, the sigh is a sort of rehearsal of one's dying moment: it shadows the body's ultimate gasp, that final sound and respiration. Pg.85

Lexicon of the Mouth: Poetics and Politics of Voice and the Oral Imaginary by Brandon LaBelle

Further thinking about loss, and absence- this text connects to ideas that represent loss in our day-to-day life. Each sigh a reminder of our last one. It's an eschatological bodily gesture. This could be interesting to sample for recordings- and manipulate for an installation.