La voz materna como contenedor del ego / The mother’s voice as a container of the ego
Sound art performance and talk
Escuela Col. de Ingenieros
Bogotá – April 2017
In alliance with
Escuela Col. de Ingenieros Julio Garavito University (Col)
Psychoanalysts have argued that the interplay created between the mother’s and the infant’s voice is significant in the development of the ego. The maternal voice has been seen as an acoustic container that surrounds and treasures the child. Psychoanalyst Didier Anzieu suggested that this ‘envelope of sounds’ contains the emerging ego of the infant like a skin, becoming a replacement for the womb. On the early 60’s John C. Lilly conceived the isolation chamber a device used for sensory deprivation with the purpose of isolating the perception from external stimulation. It has been argued that the isolation tank resembles the conditions in which we last experienced the womb. On April 24th Felipe Rodríguez and David Vélez with Ana Lucía Gómez performed the concert “The voice of the mother as a container for the ego”. In this concert Felipe enters an isolation tank wearing an ECG sensor-head piece that reads its brain oscillation. He is floating on 37oC salt water wearing eye pads and listening only through the tank. Close to the tank there is Felipe’s mother, Ana Lucía, who reads to the him and to the audience the folk tail ‘Gobelino’ which she read to him when he was a little child. David reads the frequency numbers of Felipe´s brain oscillation (which ranges between 10 Hz and 80 Hz) and sonically replicates them with a tone generator.
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