Fourth episode (in Italian language).
Hypersound – Divenire Acqua, Divenire Vibrazione
Curated by Associazione Pluto in Scorpio (Paola Pietronave, Lorenzo Serafino, Arianna Sollazzo)
A chat with Les Biologistes Marins
“Water as a mediator between bodies, water as an enabler of being bodies.”
– Astrida Neimanis
Water is not only inside us. We are liquid conduits, relational habitats, vessels of transmission.
The Hypersea – as Neimanis calls it – is the ocean we never fully left.
We carry it within; we are it. To become a body of water is to recognize that every body is a passage, a gestational milieu, a body towards a body, towards a body, towards a body. Perhaps care, transformation, and attunement begin precisely here: in what flows between us.
That’s why we speak of Hypersound – like water, sound composes us and passes through us. It is vibration before language, matter moving from one body to another without asking for permission. Hypersound is a relational wave, a vibrant ecology that links bodies without merging them, makes them resonate together, tunes them.
We don’t see it, but it shapes us. We don’t hold it, but it holds us.
Like water, sound is a milieu: environment, medium, passage.
A body towards a body, towards a body, towards a body.
In listening.
Readings from Undrowned. Lezioni di femminismo nero dai mammiferi marini, written by Alexis Pauline Gumbs; published by AK Press in 2020, and in 2023 by Timeo in its italian version.
Les Biologistes Marins is a project that blends music, water, and video material, driven by the curiosity of Beatrice Miniaci, classical flutist and performer, and Anton Sconosciuto, drummer, producer, and composer. Their work explores the intersection between sound and narratives related to water, investigating how artistic creation connects to contemporary issues such as rising sea temperatures, water consumption and waste, and noise pollution.
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