The external part of the ear is in charge of protecting, amplifying, and localizing the

sounds which it captures. The middle part of the ear equalizes the sounds it receives
and also functions as a resistance to being set in motion. The internal ear is a
distributing filter that allows the information associated with the sound to be processed
by the mind of the human being.
The ear is therefore considered to be an internal and external organ dedicated to audition
and equilibrium of the body.
It becomes active after four and a half months of fetal life. In the time it is in the
stomach of the mother, it is listening to cycles of cardiac palpitations under water.

(two important artists who have artistically reflected upon this

information)

The french composer, Michel Redolfi, has revealed our astounding

auditory capacities in the water as the pioneer of underwater
concerts, where music is electronically broadcast under the surface of
the sea or pools to be enjoyed by floating listeners.

The TOMATIS Method was founded in the 1950's by Alfred TOMATIS

(January 1st,1920 - December 25th, 2001), a French ear-nose-and-
throat specialist. This seminal Method deals with the relationship that
exists between the ear and the voice and, by extension, between
listening and communication. It is, in fact, a pedagogy of listening in
the sense that it permits an individual to reawaken the desire to
communicate by learning how to use his auditory system in an
optimal fashion.

The TOMATIS Method is founded on three laws:

The voice contains only the sounds that the ear hears.
If listening is modified, the voice is also modified, immediately and
unconsciously.
It is possible to transform phonation by an auditory stimulus that is
sustained over a certain period of time (law of remanence).
The application of this Method is made possible by a sophisticated
piece of equipment known as the Electronic Ear. This device, through
the interplay of a complex system of gating and filters as well as
specific functions that regulate latency time, precession, and auditory
laterality, can be used to stimulate the desire to listen and thus to
communicate.

Education with the Electronic Ear requires a great variety of very

specific sonic stimuli, fashioned in our laboratory, and which envelop
all the phases of listening from the most archaic in a liquid medium
(in utero) to the most evolved of adulthood. This work fosters the
reawakening of the desire to listen and as a consequence the reorganization of the
mechanisms of communication. This active pedagogy has an impact on the functions of
balance, energy, and audition, all three of which constitute the listening function. The
goal of the TOMATIS Method is to maximize the capacity for communication that
everyone has, by giving, or restoring to the individual his full autonomy as a listener as
rapidly as possible.

Human beings are able to perceive from 20 to 20000 Hz (hertz is a

measurement tool that indicates the amount of times a wave,
electromagentic or sound, repeates itself in a second).
Roughly we hear sounds above 60 decibels and above 130 it is painful
to the human ear. The decibel is a logarithmic untiy that measures
the pressure a sound has.
When we hear a sound it is because a determined area of the cochlea
is being aroused depending on the frequency (measured in hertz) it
has. The area that is aroused is called the basilar membrane (i dont
know if this is right in english?).
Why is the understanding of the human body important to make art
and understand art?

Relationship between art and perception

Art and nature (greek conception of art as an imitation of nature)
Perception determined by phisiology
Endogamic process: we only make what we are made to understand
because we can
only make what we understand
All possible art has already been made with the creation of the human
body and of the universe, if the conscious human creates art it is like
a masturbation, or taking a shit the product can only be something
derived from what he is made of (which involves his relationship with
the world)
Televisions work the same way eyes do, and instruments work the
same way the ears do (roughly)
Heidegger´s understanding of the work of art as recognizing an
essence and then ripping it from its hidden spot---this would result in
a material work of art which is an essence of an existing thing
brought out into light