While we may be dependent on the voices we hear in the media, and the media often has a short attention span, Timmons takes the time to transcode various sources from many media, stitching together a Joyful Noise of voices to cut across the dismaying noise of the otherwise humdrum deluge. "Joyful Noise is a cool read, exemplary in itself of the paradoxes of its construction. In each of its three sections, a discrete concoction of light constraints filters - like a mesh trumpet gramophone - commentary on human noise and attention from the infinite traffic of the Internet, as reined and hailed...