Steven Church's Auscultation
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Steven Church’s 2007 essay, Auscultation, portrays the intimate act of listening, interpreting, and imitating sounds in various instances such as trapped miners, an infant heartbeat monitor, and a visit to the doctor’s office. Church uses these examples in order to illustrate that something as simple as speech or sound is neglected, but continues to be a beautiful gift in everyday life in which should not be overlooked. Through Chamber 1, Steven Church displays how listening and noise-making devices used in a previous mining experience were unable to conclusively decide whether missing miners trapped under a 1500 feet cave were alive or lifeless. Rescue workers took over three days trying to find the trapped men by using “seismic listening