This recording of the interior sounds of a mother while carrying her child in utero is amazing and intriguing (how did the do it?). Besides the predictable stomach gurgles and breathing, the sounds of the outside world are heard from as if from a distance--voices, music. What is strangely missing, though, is the hearbeeat of the mother, and the mkother's own own voice as experienced from inside, which, as I understand it, are two of the strongest steady impressions of a fetus. I have done some reading in this area, and it would have helped the untutored listener to have some introduction or postlude to the piece, but in a way it's wonderful having it just stand on its own as well.

Weird and wonderful. A prenatal soundscape from the sonic genius Walter Murch who trains us to see through sound. Murch has written about the aural experience of babies in utero:
" Four and a half months after we are conceived, we are already beginning to hear. It is the first of our senses to be switched on, and for the next four and a half months sound reigns as a solitary Queen of the Senses. The close and liquid world of the womb makes sight and smell impossible, taste and touch a dim and generalized hint of what is to come. Instead, we luxuriate in a continuous bath of sounds: the song of our mother's voice, the swash of her breathing, the piping of her intestines, the timpani of her heart."
There is a story we can begin to see through these sounds but a two way with the Murchs would perhaps bring it to life even more.