She settles deeper into the piled pillows, their crisp white covers rustling against her naked shoulders. Her soft exhalation, almost inaudible to her, stimulates the delicate wireless electrodes adhered to her cheeks, throat, chest and belly. The signal is transmitted to the listeners and sets off a fast scritching from the dark edge of the room.
You weren’t joking about getting readings almost immediately. The sound level meter is working.
Do you think the condenser mic is close enough? That didn’t read.
A sterile light, reminiscent of the dentist’s office, glares off the sheet. She keeps her eyes closed against the brightness but wants to feel it on her bare skin. She’s allowed to have as much or as little covering her as she likes.
Haven’t seen you since that Psychoacoustics conference. Still focusing on Systematic Musicology?
Yep. They brought me in for my expertise with fractional octave filters.
She slides the sheet down to her belly, revealing herself to the analytical gaze of the shadowed musicologists. She strokes the sides of her breasts, cups them in her hands, lifts and squeezes them. Her inhaled breath whistles between pursed lips. At the top of the breath, she pinches both nipples, squeezing and holding. The breath leaves her nose on a whimper and she hears a clipboard tap someone’s wristwatch.
So we’re really doing this. Doesn’t it feel…sordid…in front of all these people?
If we can use what we learn to trigger sympathetic neurological and biological effects in listeners, we should feel honored.
Music that can make people…come.
I hope she doesn’t overdo it. It won’t work if she’s just acting.
The palpable focus turns up her sensitivity and she sends one cold hand stroking over her ribs. Her semi-reclining position mounds her belly and encourages the folds above and below. They watch and listen and she whines her anticipation for them. Yes, she wants to turn herself on, to roll up the sunny hill of pleasure and play on the craggy peaks of joy that will send her home to herself, triumphant.
This is best done bare. She kicks the top sheet off altogether and slits her eyes to look down her body.
She feels her nudity more acutely in the shadows than in the light.
Alto sax here.
We’re using A-frequency-weighting on the SLM, right?
She swipes two fingers of lube from the stainless-steel dish they had provided and slicks it into the folds of her labia. Her fingertip nudges her tender clit, eliciting a chattering chirp, and she presses the flat of her fingers to either side with a croon.
Not too fast. Can’t have the symphony last only a minute or two.
She leaves her hand there and moves her other hand to the swell of her belly and the spongy flesh protecting her pubic bone. Her palm, leathery and calloused from constructing, tuning and playing drums, catches on the springy hairs with a soft rasp. The gentle pull has her swallowing with a gulp.
Was that sound sexy? She doubts herself suddenly, for the first time. She squeezes her eyes closed. These noises, so raw and unfiltered in the ears of colleagues and acquaintances and friends, reveal her arousal. Naked on a starched white sheet, she struggles with silence, knowing that any sound will bare her need more deeply than the light, the space, the avid eyes. She could jerk off for them and feel private if she hadn’t agreed to give them her sounds.
Cough. Rustle.
Shhh.
No wrong way.
Stretching her back, pushing out her belly, she makes room for air. She drinks it, sizzling, between her teeth and lets it rumble in her chest and throat on the way out. She stretches the tight muscles of her jaw, dropping her mouth wide open, and the next breath comes out as a groan.
Oboe. She has the timbre and sustain of woodwinds.
Breathing has put her back in her body and she opens her eyes. The tight focus of the light ends just below her diaphragm, above her belly button. Below that is a hint of light, the reflection from her skin and the bright sheet, bronzing her crinkly hair and texturizing the shadows between her drawn-together thighs.
Looking, she touches her clit with two fingers. A husky throat-clearing from a watcher surprises a jangly laugh from her. The observer effect. She feels her clit swell in the valley between her fingers and shifts them in minuscule circles, gurgles flowing from her throat.
We can try trombone for matching these harmonics.
She modulates the pressure of her fingers and starts to gnaw at her sounds, little yelps trading air with purrs. The tension in her builds and her lungs fill and empty more and more insistently, the tangy hum alternating with gasping and squeaking.
Violin and cello trading off, perhaps?
Too good to stop but not enough for the ear-shattering release she wants to give them. She concentrates her circles right down on the head of her clit, holding her clit-hood back with her other hand, and lets herself caterwaul with the delicious excitement of an intermediate come during an extended sexual playtime.
Horns and cymbals, I think.
She’s not using the semitone scale. Oh boy, this is going to be fun.
Her jerking body makes every chuckle a polyphonic lava burst. Joy erupts from her in babbling laughter as she engages all the muscles in her torso in service of the orgasm. She tosses her head back and jerks it forward with each hard-wringing wave of abdominal strength, her chortles shifting to a warbling, trilling scream.
I’m hearing flute, don’t you think?
The dial on the quasi-peak program meter is dancing. Really. Look!
Gasping, panting syllables pour senselessly from her mouth as she trembles. They gain depth and turn rough when she pushes the dildo into her fluttering pussy. Her hot, velvety flesh massages the insensitive tool, grasping and pulling, creating a direct line from her vocal cords to her sexual center. Bleats turn to hoots turn to a ragged roar as she fucks herself roughly, pounding the base against all the tenderness outside while rubbing and pushing so far up inside that she chokes finally on sobbing snarls. Hiccups put dead stop thunks between grinding ragged croaks.
I…fuck…
I’m seeing spurious tones at double and triple her base frequency. Her harmonic distortion is glorious.
She slows her thrusting and then leaves the dildo hot inside her pussy. An easy moan mirrors the long undulations still sweeping her muscles. She turns on her side, feeling the electrodes shift with her breasts, and reaches around to touch her asshole. The dry pull reminds her of the lube and she scoops up a liberal amount.
Is that her heart? This movement will begin with throbbing tympani.
That makes sense emotionally, but let’s see what the equal-loudness contours show.
She thinks briefly of the careful setup, the precise placement of the piezoelectric and condenser mics, but goes with her own desire. Leaving the dildo aside, she slips off the edge of the bed and leans against it, her belly a wonderful prop for her torso. Both hands behind her, she pulls her cheeks apart and slathers her asshole with lube. She sighs as the fingertips of both hands tease the quickly softening folds. The hard light shows every freckle on her chest and glares on her nipple rings, but the electrodes absorb all frequencies. The weight on her belly forces her to breathe in with greater force, so she alternates powerful inhalation with a slow drone.
Um…harmonium…and tabla…you can see the rhythm on the meter.
As her asshole heats and eases, she presses inward. She finds the horribly, deliciously balanced place, not thrusting but pulsating…
Oh…that slow, low sax.
…only withdrawing in order to slide back in…
How many rattles can one throat produce?
…adding fingers for the stretch…
Her sustain is incredible.
She grabs the dildo, lubes it until it’s dripping, and turns around. Holding its flared base against the mattress, she backs onto it, forcing it past the constriction of her sphincters with the power of her weight.
From groan to scream, she rips her throat open the way the dildo tears into her ass. The messy, dense, gnarled sensation translates as sound too complicated to analyze in a single hearing and she knows that the not painful forced feeling will challenge their best ears, their wisest and most widely experienced experts.
Are we getting this? We’re still recording, right?
Um, yes. Of course. I mean…fuck…I hope we got that. All the dials are twitching.
She uses the mattress to hold the dildo deep in her ass and arrows her hands into her pussy. Her arms curve around the pendant mass of her belly, hanging out and down and making room for all the air in the room to fill her lungs and be reborn as aural sex.
Spreading the sculptural labia, pulling back the clit-hood, she grunts with the urge to thrust her hard clit into some soft, receptive orifice. She wants to fuck with it and jacks it off with thumb and curled index finger. She pushes her hips forward into her grasping fingers and screeches at the near-loss of the dildo in her ass. She thrusts back onto it and then rebounds, the beginning of a hard bounce that shoves her hips around in an orgy between her hands and her cock and her pussy and her ass and her clit and her pussy and her ass and her cock.
Unh…unh…god, yes…keep going…you can take more…
Shifting her legs farther apart, she transmutes the quivering exhaustion in her thighs into motivation, layering the pain and fear of collapse over her emotional fear that she will come apart this time, that no one can go this far and reassemble as a single human entity.
She is no longer able to maintain a regular rhythm and her slurping, smacking yelps and retching, grinding howls inundate the room.
Oh…fuck…can I…yes, like that…
She’s in the red zone…oh, more tongue…I gotta monitor the…
She shoves her pungent knuckles in her mouth, tasting herself—she is musky and briny and peppery. The muffling of her voice allows thought to reassert itself and she realizes that it’s time to give her body a rest—at least the muscles of her legs.
Wh-what happened? Is she done? D-don’t stop. Please.
Shh. Compression and intensity have increased though volume has decreased.
She puts a hand on the dildo in her ass and rolls onto the bed. Lying flat, she props her heel on the base of the dildo to keep it in place and presses her pussy with the flat of her hand. Her palm is softened with lube but still decorated with thick calluses in ridges and pads.
When she pulls on her labia, twisting and pinching, her tongue taps the roof of her mouth. When she rubs tenderized, sore tissues, her moan is both pure and deep, an expression of love for herself. She cradles her clit in its hood and rocks it gently back and forth, subtly stroking it.
She’s gone within now. So quiet, but not silent. Remember this fulgent, brimming, congested, saturated precipice. The last movement comes from this place.
Without changing her oblique touch, her heart thumps hard, once, twice, wringing gasps each time. She plummets, free-falling without fear because there is no ground.
She crows with triumph and throws her shoulders back, her fingers scrambling to stay with her clit. The dildo shoves out so hard that it folds between her heel and her asshole, her continued cheers changing into a circular melody that slowly, over minutes, devolves into sobs, each with its own shadow attached.
As her breathing slows and her heart eases, her sobs turn into humming. She straightens her leg and rests her hands on the expanse of her belly. Each breath in recoups energy, redefines the integrity of her body, while each breath out holds a language and song of its own.
Wait. Wait for it.
After long moments, she opens her eyes to the glare of the light. Blinded, one last gusty sigh catches in her throat and trembles on the needle of the vibration analyzer.
Beautiful.