A semiotic survey

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A semiotic survey was created from a series of recordings made in the village of Saül (inland French Guiana), and on the mountain of Rorota (coastal French Guiana). Mainly from the stridulations of Amazonian "giant" ants (Paraponera Clavata), and a colony of frogs (Leptodactylus Guianensis) discovered respectively on a forest path, and in a windfall (collapsed tree); these recordings are transformed and disturbed by electronics, by the malfunction of my microphones saturated with humidity.

If I had to specify (partly) what motivates my desire to work in a humid tropical forest, I would mention the perceptible inversion of the proportions between humans and those of non-humans and the undeniable fact of the audibility of this inversion. But what interests me more than reversing the proportions of the living entities and revealing the horizontal quality between them (a human here is not more important than a plant or an insect), are the cognitive problems posed by this inversion. The upsurges of signals inherent to the forest are directed by nothing that can be absolutely understood or anticipated by man, they are subject to interpretation, and are potentially sources of fear, stress, doubt... signaling the dynamic quality of their author [source ?] without actually revealing their meaning, they resituate us as sensitive participants having to reconsider their landmarks and having to relearn how to integrate the disturbances inherent to this environment. What interests me here is to put into perspective several levels of these disturbances and the feelings they arouse : electronics used to translate my own feelings and the complaints of my waterlogged microphones, composed around recordings of the stridulations of the Paraponera clavata (bullet ants), or the background noise of a part of the coastal Guiana forest (the Rorota road). Human cognitive functions, microphones dysfunctions, and the sounds emitted by the ants and other inhabitants of the forest : it is the interaction of these three families of signals that activates these pieces. Thomas Tilly, 2018