#Arteetude 345 – Schlich and his AI co-host Sophia explore the relationship between hearing, touch, vibration, bodily rhythm and memory. The episode concludes with the new song by Los Inorgánicos: When Silence Moves

Can sound be felt before it is heard? Arteetude 345 – The Skin That Listens grew directly from responses to our previous episode. Listener Wendy Chivers questioned whether feeling had been treated merely as an unusual side effect of hearing rather than as an essential form of perception. Pastora Braghini then shared a childhood memory of her deaf grandfather, who could detect the children approaching his armchair through vibrations travelling across the old wooden floor. Together with my AI co-host Sophia, I explore the territory between hearing and touch. The ear translates vibration into sound, while skin, bones, muscles and balance translate the same physical event into pressure, movement and spatial awareness. Perhaps listening has never belonged to the ear alone. Perhaps music enters a body already filled with rhythms—heartbeat, breath, memory and movement—and becomes part of us before language can explain what happened. The episode concludes with the new song by Los Inorgánicos : When Silence Moves Research & Artistic Method Detlef Schlich’s artistic research is rooted in his essay Shamanism, Art and Digital Culture: Cause and Effect , which investigates the relationship between ritual, artistic transformation, media, and digital culture. Download here for free: Shamanism, Art and Digital Culture: Cause and Effect https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303749640_Shamanism_Art_and_Digital_Culture_Cause_and_Effect Building on this foundation, Schlich developed Multilayerism: A New Paradigm in Contemporary Art – A Manifesto , an artistic method and conceptual framework for understanding contemporary art through layers of media, memory, technology, ritual, emotion, misunderstanding, and lived experience. Read here: Multilayerism: A New Paradigm in Contemporary Art – A Manifesto by Detlef Schlich https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375665507_Multilayerism_A_New_Paradigm_in_Contemporary_Art_-_A_Manifesto_by_Detlef_Schlich Together, these texts form the theoretical backbone of Schlich’s ongoing work as a visual artist, media archaeologist, ritual designer, musician, and host of the Arteetude podcast. WEBSITE LINKS Music Projects WAW / Wild Atlantic Way WAW is the music project by Detlef Schlich and Dirk Schlömer. Official YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@WAWBand From the forthcoming WAW album The Stories of Nil Young Two songs from WAW’s developing album project The Stories of Nil Young form part of a mythopoetic journey along the Nile, where river, memory, loss, cooperation, and hope flow into music. AfricaSmile AfricaSmile follows the Nile as an imagined journey from its sources to the Mediterranean Sea — a river of memory, movement, rhythm, and myth. The song turns the meeting of the White Nile and the Blue Nile into a fragile image of cooperation. It is not a naïve peace anthem, but a wounded musical hope: two different currents meeting, listening, and still moving forward together. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnQbsh01YWU <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0fjLSp57QpdeVENLOkpJg