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

[Michael Gumnor]

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Am 08.07.2011 10:55, schrieb 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.
>
>


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