Our eardrums begin developing even before we are born.
A foetus starts responding to sounds as early as the fifth month of the pregnancy. Conversely, sight is the last sense to develop before the child is born. Relying on stereophony created by our two ears, the brain consciously locates the sound source and is capable of placing us in space with perfect precision due to the background sounds. We can also subconsciously pause when we aren’t receiving the auditory warning signals from our environment, just as we can snap back awake in an instant as soon as we detect a key auditory signal (a word, an approaching vehicle, a bell, a telephone…). In other words, when we focus on the sound source, we transition from the state of “hearing” to the state of “listening”. That act of listening is the basis of this entire project.