[rohrpost] Detection workshop Ausland Berlin March 12-13

[martin]

But... But what is detection if not confession?
[Bad Timing. 1980]

The conditions of the sentience had been here, he imagined, fulfilled
in the method of collocation of these stones --in the order of their
arrangement, as well as in that of the many fungi which overspread
them, and of the decayed trees which stood around --above all, in the
long undisturbed endurance of this arrangement, and in its
reduplication in the still waters of the tarn.
[Edgar Allen Poe. The Fall of the House of Usher.]

A two day workshop exploring the work of EVP (Electronic Voice
Phenomena) and ITC (Instrumental Trans Communication) practitioners
such as Friedrich Juergenson, Konstantin Raudive and Klaus Schreiber
under the twinned practical methodologies of excitation (pick your
carrier) and paranoid detection (everyday forensics). Detection is
rehearsed in its widest sense, as a "making sense of that which is".

The detection workshop points towards playful techniques for the
investigation of materiality and message which are positioned to one
definite side of scientific, economic or teleological examinations;
this revealing is necessary. And finally, to ask the question,
experimentally, of what exactly constitutes detection and the work of
the detective?

Schedule:

1st day: 

Examination of classical EVP techniques with an emphasis on
light/provision of carrier and subsequent detection/recording, and on
the practical repurposing of electronic detection hardware (radios,
tape recorders, video machines).

A series of experimental platforms ranging across radio, ultrasonics,
white noise, light and vibration will be constructed alongside a set
of experimental apparatus for use during the following day's
excursion. A small overnight test situation also will be set up at a
new location.

2nd day:

Fieldtrip to a to-be-specified location for primary inscription and
playback of the stone tape. Other activities will include geophony,
amateur geo-forensics and the construction of ad-hoc seismometers,
dowsing, excavation, and forensic enquiry.

The workshop will close with a public presentation/performance with
willing workshop participants at Ausland.

That which participants could bring: any form of recording or
transcribing device (tape/HD recorder, camera, pencil, paper), materials
for excitation and subsequent detection (for example, minerals), and
dowsing rods/pendulums.

... with Martin Howse and Martin Kuentz as part of occulto fest.

12-13 March 2011, 11.30-19 @ Ausland, Lychener Str 60 | 10437 Berlin  
Workshop fee: 30 Euros
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