[spectre] Digicult Interviews: Joe Banks: Rorschach Audio. EVP, Psychoacoustics and Auditory Illusions

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A NEW INTERVIEW ON DIGICULT
Joe Banks: Rorschach Audio. EVP, Psychoacoustics and Auditory Illusions
by Elena Biserna
http://www.digicult.it/en/news/rorschach-audio-evp-psychoacoustics-and-auditory-illusions/

The so-called Rorschach ink-blot test is a psychodiagnostic method for the
analysis of personality named after its inventor: Swiss psychiatrist
Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922). During the test, the patient is asked to
interpret a series of ten cards with symmetrical colored blots. According
to advocates of this diagnostic method, different subjective responses to
these ambiguous images – if appropriately registered and analyzed – would
reveal the personality profile of the examined subject, as well as any
psychiatric diseases or though disorder.

It’s from this complex and debated methodology that the title *Rorschach
Audio. Art & Illusion for Sound *takes its cue. *Rorschach Audio** *is the
latest book by Joe Banks, perhaps better known for his artistic projects,
signed, since 1995, with the name Disinformation. The result of more than a
decade of research, the book starts from a trenchant critique of artistic
uses and scientific claims of EVP – Electronic Voice Phenomena, but expands
its scope to address the wider issues of auditory illusions, psychoacoustic
ambiguities, and misperceptions of sound stimuli. The central thesis of the
book is that it is the mind to project illusory, familiar, and subjective
meanings into ambiguous, undefined and unknown sounds, similarly to what
happens in the visual field with the Rorschach ink-blots.

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