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| oscillation series - sonic theories and practices #11 - Sonic Specters and Electronic Ghosts |
// Talk, Presentation & Sound
// Date: 11th July 2011 (Mo), 20h
The 11th session is dedicated to "Sonic Specters and Electronic Ghosts"
Anthony Enns: Sonic Specters: From Direct Voice Mediumship to Electronic Voice Phenomena
This paper will examine the history of spiritualist sound research and its relationship to the development of new sound technologies from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Modern spiritualism was a religious movement based on the principle of direct communication with the dead, and early sound technologies like the phonograph and the gramophone were frequently employed as models to explain the transmission of disembodied voices during spiritualist séances. Radios and tape recorders were incorporated into these sound experiments in the twentieth century, as spiritualists believed these technologies were also capable of capturing the voices of the dead. By examining the methods and practices employed by spiritualist sound researchers, this paper will explore the uncanny aspects of sound technologies as well as the psychic, linguistic, and media-technological implications of electrical noise.
Profile
Anthony Enns is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Culture at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is as well a translator of Friedrich Kittlers "Optische Medien" into English language.
Annie Goh: Speculum Rotarius – Electronic Ghosts
I will present my work “speculum rotarius – electronic ghosts”, a room installation which used the software ‘EVPmaker’ by Stefan Bion to enable possible communication between the visitor and the spirit of Michael Jackson. I would like to present some of the theoretical ideas behind the installation, including my connection between EVP and Sonic Fiction, EVP and hauntology, as well as some other related works.
Profile
Annie Goh, born in Birmingham UK, moved to Berlin in 2008. Her works include installations, compositions and performances working with themes of sound, imagination and auditive perception. She completed her MA in Sound Studies at the UdK Berlin in 2010 with a thesis entitled “Perceiving Sound as Sonic Fiction” inspired by Kodwo Eshun’s 1998 book “Adventures in Sonic Fiction”. She is a member of the artist collective Berg26 and currently studies Computational Art with Alberto de Campo. She works as a writer and editor for the online record shop zero-inch, assists at the Vilém Flusser Archive and contributes to the CTM – club transmediale festival.
Picture by Tom Tomcyzk
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