[rohrpost] 11th (mon) of July: Sonic Specters and Electronic Ghosts

[Shintaro Miyazaki]

Liebe Rohpostlerinnen  und Rohrpostler,

die 11ste session der "oscillation series - sonic theories and  
practices" wird am Montag den 11. Juli stattfinden. Es wird um  
Verbindungen von Sound, Medientechniken (historische), elektrische  
Geister und andere paranormale Phänomene gehen. Wir hoffen auf etwas  
Interesse.

Beste Grüße

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date: 11th of July 2011, Mon. 8pm
title: Sonic Specters and Electronic Ghosts
with: Anthony Enns and Annie Goh (moderated by Jan Thoben and Shintaro  
Miyazaki)
place: General Public, Schönhauser Allee 167c, Berlin.

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 translated as well  
Friedrich Kittlers "Optische Medien" into english.


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.