Michelle Shocked, folk singer and performance artist, released an 11-track LP of silent songs, titled Inaudible Women.

Inaudible Women

Shocked, already a controversial artist among critics and fans alike, named each track after a different music industry heavyweights, namely those working in digital music distribution. Each name/title is followed by their place of work. For example, track 6 is named “Chris Harrison (Pandora),” track 8 is titled “David Drummond (Google, YouTube).” Shocked is selling the album for $9.99 in the hopes of raising funds for her next tour.

Each song is around one minute long, and, in a video promoting her new album, Shocked claims that they do, in fact, contain sound. However, the sound is only audible to dogs.

“I decided that I was going to make a high album – in fact, the highest album ever made, just so that my friends Spot and Rex can hear it, not audible to human ears. And to raise money for my fall tour,” Shocked says.

Michelle Shocked Feud With Chris Willman

Track 11’s namesake, Chris Willman, is a music journalist who covered Shocked’s 2013 controversy after she went on an anti-gay rant during a small concert in San Francisco. Willman and Shocked engaged in a heated twitter war that ended with Willman getting kicked off Twitter, getting reinstated and forcing Shocked off Twitter.

During their public feud, Shocked reportedly mocked the death of Willman’s father and even tweeted out Willman’s home phone number and personal email address.

After the release of Inaudible Women, Willman addressed the issue with a blog post on Yahoo Music, writing, “Shocked used the titles of her non-tunes to take a dig at some supposedly sinister digital music executives she believes are destroying the business for artists, but she left the 11th and final slot open for ‘Chris Willman.’ I’d like to think this pegs me not as an afterthought in her contempt but as something more like the ‘Jungleland’ of Inaudible Women.”

Shocked is not the first artist to release a silent album to raise funds. Recently, indie band Vulfpeck released a silent album called Sleepify in the hopes of raising money for a tour and made $20,000 in two months.