'Surface noise’ is about being constantly on the surface of something or someone when one doesn’t know intimacy, when one keeps forgetting intimacy and the body and is consequently forced to discover it over and over again. It’s about the relationship between intimacy and the not knowing of body language and body codes. Therefore the intimacy in surface noise can be best described with the following sentences: Exploration of the body. Exploration and acceptation. Acceptation and sometimes response. No acceptation of response.