<br clear="all"><span class="userContent">A NEW INTERVIEW ON DIGICULT<br> Joe Banks: Rorschach Audio. EVP, Psychoacoustics and Auditory Illusions<br> by Elena Biserna<br> <a href="http://www.digicult.it/en/news/rorschach-audio-evp-psychoacoustics-and-auditory-illusions/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow nofollow">http://www.digicult.it/en/news/rorschach-audio-evp-psychoacoustics-and-auditory-illusions/</a></span><br>
<br><p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US">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 <span style="color:#000000">appropriately </span>registered
and analyzed would reveal the personality profile of the examined
subject, as well as any psychiatric diseases or though disorder.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US">Its from this complex and debated methodology that the title <em>Rorschach Audio. Art & Illusion for Sound </em>takes its cue. <em>Rorschach Audio</em><em> </em>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.</p>
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