Neumark, Norie2015-11-112015-11-1119991017-4656https://doi.org/10.2312/egs.19991040New media art generally fails to engage with the imaginative and artistic possibilities and particularities of sound. Shock in the Ear is a sound -centred experimental art CDROM which explores shock -- from culture shock to electric shock and reverberating beyond into shock aesthetics.