Anxiety can be self-evident or subliminal, and in either case the essential tension is underlying — not an explicit likelihood but an implicit one. **Micah Frank** knows something about the way that sonification can, so to speak, amplify the information intrinsic in data, having himself taken [data of an earthquake](https://disquiet.com/2011/03/14/the-sonifying-of-japan/) and turned its fierce metrics into noise. More recently, his “Granular Curtis Airport Security at JFK International Airport” appears to use narrow-band filtration, eking out tiny slivers of noise, as a means to investigate the mix of mundanity and tension that characterize the experience of submitting to the transit authority:
https://soundcloud.com/micahfrank/granular-curtis-airport
Track originally posted for free download at [soundcloud.com/micahfrank](https://soundcloud.com/micahfrank/granular-curtis-airport). More from Frank, who’s based in Brooklyn, New York, at [micahfrank.com](http://micahfrank.com/) and [twitter.com/micahfrank](https://twitter.com/micahfrank). (Image from [flickr.com](http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidreber/6059467915/).)