The line is deceased. Mapping with and through sound @ Centre Huarte (Navarre)

THE LINE IS DECEASED. MAPPING WITH AND THROUGH SOUND @ Center Huarte (Navarre)
+ SOUND-MAPPING: A critical history of sound mapping @ Bigorio (Switzerland)
Collaboration: Center d’Art Contemporain Huarte / SUPSI / Hillel Schwartz

Before being born, we map the world almost exclusively by sound. In the uterus, we get a feeling of place more by the presence of near and distant sounds, clear or muffled, rhythmic or sudden than by touch, vision and taste, whose physical range is as limited as smell is limited by its diffuse immediacy. While obstetricians can now locate the position and follow the growth of the fetus by ultrasound, from the sixth month, on the fetus itself, its well-developed hearing system, acoustically mapping its own position vis-à-vis live the mother’s body and at the same time learn to recognize the tones and inflections linked to her mother tongues. And while parents deploying monitors to monitor newborns and infants may be audibly monitored, toddlers always monitor their own situation more carefully than visually or tactile, which is out of the question. of reach of the new world. We could therefore say that it is “natural” to map our surroundings.