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EARTH’S EARS
SERIES OF SONIC INTERVENTIONS
IN COLLABORATION W/ THE COMMUNITIES OF ZAHINO, EL ROCÍO & ÍTACA
RANCHERÍA RIVER MIDDLE BASIN, LA GUAJIRA, CO
earth’s ears unfolds as a series of situated sonic interventions along the middle basin of the ranchería river. the process is articulated through hand-made ceramic basins that integrate water microphones, soil microphones, and geophones crafted within the framework of the research, activating a mode of listening to the hydrogeological processes that weave the territory.
the basins act as listening prostheses that integrate into the dynamics of water and soil. by holding vibrations, flows, and subterranean resonances, each basin articulates a space where the sounds of the earth emerge in relation to the surface, configuring a listening basin that connects depths and temporalities.
the interventions take place at different hydric nodes of the basin —jagüeyes, springs, streams, mills, and water infrastructures— and unfold alongside processes of shared listening and exchange with the inhabitants of these places. these encounters expand the sonic experience toward narratives, practices, and memories linked to water, situating each intervention as an ethnographic exercise that attends to the audible as a relational medium with and within the territory.
from this listening practices, the plurality of water that emerges through the interventions exceeds geo-logical readings that reduce water and land to available resources. sound activates layers of presence that go beyond the idea of semi-desert territories as silent spaces, revealing vibrations, frictions, and resonances that persist both underground and at the surface. at the same time, the interventions render silence audible as an actively induced process: an catalyzer of coal mining and extractive practices that reconfigure the territory, alter its rhythms, interrupt flows, and dampen vital relations. listening unfolds between what still resonates and what has been forced into quiet, opening a space to attend to the tensions, absences, and persistences that traverse the basin.