In the fall of 2019, Elizabeth Hart, best known as bassist for the band Psychic Ills, was pregnant and looking for a project that reflected this moment in her life. “I was interested in finding some way of collaborating with my physical state in a way,” she says on a video call from Buenos Aires, where she and her New York-based family spend a few months of the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hart is also a dancer, and earlier in her pregnancy, she had worked on some dance projects, but by her third trimester, the changes in her physical experience presented the most intriguing creative possibilities in that particular moment. “Luca was already moving a lot. My body was very full,” Hart recalls. So, she and her husband, producer Iv\u00e1n Diaz Math\u00e9, experimented in the recording studio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Math\u00e9 had been working with bionsonic MIDI technology, which translates movement into sound, for a few years. In the studio, they connected the device to Hart’s stomach and recorded the resulting music. That led to the album Sounds of the Unborn<\/a><\/em>, which will be released via Sacred Bones<\/a> on April 2.\u00a0The album is credited to their daughter, Luca Yupanqui, who was born in November 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n