ABSTRACT
This text investigates silence experiences and some relations between listening, writing, the body, and sea soundscapes, through a study of the sound publication mar paradoxo (paradox sea), developed between 2013 and 2016, which is part of a project, ongoing since 2007, of collecting silences. Mar paradoxo is composed of printed material and two audio CDs, gathering and stacking coastal silences surrounding the island of Santa Catarina, Brazil, accompanied by indications of typologies, notes, and drawings from and for listening, and other materials.
Collecting the coastal silences is a process between the body and landscape, between writing-drawing and hearing-listening to underwater soundscapes, involving the possibilities of the existence of sound/audible silences and of a silence that does not separate itself from listening, thought of as a situation and/or body/psychic state. To think about silence as a state of listening, as a corporal-psychic situation, implies conceiving that a coastal silence moves through the body.
