We are held with our own resonance and frequency as we are formed with resonance and frequency of others. We receive indelible second-with-second spiral impressions that deny measurement, every cell speaks infinite depth. Cochlea is an archive of hundreds of thousands of resonant frequencies. Who has felt cochlea’s resonant frequency as voice?
Resonance is galvanic, thick, chimeric, a life of conjunctions, transient ecotones, dissolving and recombining. The enchantment of encountering one’s resonance, matching every frequency of every part as root, an ostensibly infinite correlation of alignments, is like holding a mirror to one’s selves to perceive celestial spectra. Resonance is a planetary feeling in soil.
Who are frequencies of dreams? How much does a boundary weigh? The relative scale of 20hz to 20khz can be thought of like one in many layers of shapeless auric field, as wondrously thick-thin as any membrane. One way we might observe the obverse is with zero, with fool (how might a ‘negative’ frequency manifest?) flowing along coherent plasmoid gradients beyond 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Stereocilia, hair-like cells, queer little gods who fleck and live to mimic and be mimicked, learn and unlearn, wrap vestibular around auditory labyrinth, or is it the reverse? They don’t differentiate between energy and environment, leaving cosmos as immanent impression to bulb in-out and cave out-in.
Parts of body are bodies themselves, requiring alchemical language as resonance, akin to Leibniz’s attempts to perceive how motion is transmitted in a plenum by impulsion, where solid bodies swim in a fluid that offers no resistance and is fluid only in relation to solid bodies, a fluid composed of solid bodies swimming in a fluid still more subtle, and so on. Parts of body are electricity of cloud-dragon. Cochlear duct is cochlea, cochlea is organ of corti, organ of corti is star map of cilia. Inner hair cells speak with central nervous system, outer hair cells amplify sounds in cochlea, receiving echoes of gut-brain alkali as lunar elasticity of meridians and nadis.
Organ of corti borders spine of cochlea, modiolus, water snake. One wall of cochlea is tissue, stria vascularis, which creates endolymph, a voice of potassium unique to body. Stria also charges endolymph as endo-cochlear potential, +80 mv needed to hear atmospheric fossils. Around cochlea swims perilymph, child and parent of cerebrospinal fluid.
Organ of corti resides among cochlear duct, where stereocilia of all kinds release worlds through ocean forests of spiral ganglion cells. All hair cells have cell body who is heat of Thalassal glass, hair as actin, molecular weaves of protein water. A vibration on a vibration on a vibration.
Outer hair cells grow on cochlear amplifier as substrate toward tectorial clouds. They are made in part of tectorin, a species of alchemy who hides in plain sound, amplifying through resonance matching, through morpho-space of morpho-phase cancellation. Inner bundles oscillate within indelible impressions of endolymph, a gravity of insect symbols in body.
Outer hair cells embedded in tectorial clouds amplify messages for inner hair cells as they release their waste. This occurs in cooperation with prestin, a kind of molecular spin-robin who is a silent and thunderous ooze called electro-motility, a creature in love with voltage as cells pull a heart together in lattice work of spiral ions.
As waves pass through cochlea, outer hair cells speak in bulbs and vents, compression and rarefaction of oval and round windows weaving prestin molecules as a thousand tongues of psyche rising. Hair cell consists of cell body and stereocilia joined by proteinaceous tip-links, fire writing, sphenoid pulses, radiant gists attached to met channel. These bundles are aeolian though they are not confined to air, as bundles move in accord with worlds moving, ions flow as ancillary conduits. Tip links open onto potassium, sodium and calcium through cation channel in mercurial reticence of beating wings.
Stereocilia are entangled cytoplasm, embedded bundles of cross linked actin filaments anchored in webs and cell tops, membranes arranged in grades of inverse height. Cations from endolymph flow into cell, de-polarising and masking neurotransmitters as nerve-language. A globe of rushes bubble in platters, quivering everywhere but their edges, their sound-light echoes frequency tarantulas cut across irregular intervals with furbelows of pearl, jet, and samphire.
This is no doubt an amateur observation, but one of the most curious elements of anatomy (literally a cutting up, figuratively a node within a flowing homeostatic pattern), with all their turn arounds and turn agains, their pull aparts and pull agains, is that everyone could be otherwise. If we cut there will always be more to cut as we move further away from whole because we’re not moving.
Georg Von Békésy thought tonotopy was the wave theory par excellence, the one that ‘explained’ hearing, and yet now we have the presence of, for one example among many, cochlear amplifier, tongue of inner ear as confluence of all meridians. On and on we shall go, continually breaking ear into pieces only to find more ears, more pieces, more worlds curling up in fractal intimacy, and whoever picks this up (happy to place this down), as Will Alexander says, grabs the magic.