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“Who You Gonna Call?” – Sophie Mayer meets the Ghost Librarian
Posted 15 November 2013 by admin | Comments Off
_ 1. How to Approach a Ghost Librarian. Or, Dr. Venkman gets busted. When Ghostbusters’ hapless trio of paranormal investigators confront their first ghost, wreaking havoc in the stacks and card catalogues of the New York Public Library, Peter Venkman’s approach is to break the silence of the library – loudly, wittily and flirtatiously. Against [...]
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The voices in the radio: SJ Fowler’s Electric Dada
Posted 20 May 2013 by admin | Comments Off
Sarah Lester explores the inspiration behind poet SJ Fowler’s new commission Electric Dada. Why can’t a tree be called Pluplusch, and Pluplubasch when it has been raining? 1916 Dada Manifesto, Hugo Ball Zurich seems like an unlikely city to spawn a revolutionary, “anti-art”, art movement, but in the midst of a war-ravaged Europe, the seeds [...]
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Munster Page Habit 2 by Mark Leahy
Posted 18 May 2013 by nathan | Comments Off
on being spoken through as conduit for sticky words [For Muster Page Habit 2, I propose an intersection of speech / thought and vocalisation that teases together a sensing of language as speaking through the body, that performs a talking that is thrown from the speaker outwards to a public / for a public / [...]
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Synchronicity: Ross Sutherland and the Poetry of the Crystal Maze
Posted 13 May 2013 by admin | Comments Off
Juggling two inputs – poet Ross Sutherland insists – is better than gawping unflinchingly at one. Taking as much inspiration from Oulipo techniques as he does from Bill Murray’s unenviable predicament in Groundhog Day, Ross has been using processes of synchronicity, and his Grandad’s old VHS tape, to create a new, quasi-hypnotic poetic form. Sarah [...]
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Subliminal messages: Judas Priest and the mythology of suicide
Posted 1 May 2013 by admin | Comments Off
Sarah Lester investigates the story behind Judas – a new musical work by synth-pop group Outfit, inspired by the Judas Priest suicide trial. Mythology, music and self-annihilation have a long and tangled history. The fatal lure of dulcet tones can be traced back as far as the 8th century BC when Homer explained the disappearance [...]
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Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomena
Posted 22 April 2013 by admin | Comments Off
In Willem Levelt’s Speaking: From Intention to Articulation, I came across a description of the ‘Tip-of-the Tongue’ state, the name for that common experience of being almost but not quite able to remember a word. Levelt is interested in what happens when the TOT state is brought about in experiments; he uses the example of [...]
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Instructions for Catch* Construction
Posted 18 April 2013 by admin | Comments Off
Honor Gavin explores three ways in to her piece 0121 Stimmtausch, which she is developing for Electronic Voice Phenomena. *Catch, n. 14. Music. Originally, a short composition for three or more voices, which sing the same melody, the second singer beginning the first line as the first goes on to the second line, and so [...]
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Describing Silence (6 Distortions)
Posted 12 April 2013 by admin | Comments (1)
In June last year, I managed to spend an hour in UCL’s anechoic chamber. This space is one of the quietest places in the city, if not in the world: isolated from all external sounds through thick insulation and a ‘floating floor’, its inside walls are covered in fibreglass wedges to prevent any noise you [...]
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Stop Press: The Electronic Voice Phenomena Tour
Posted 25 February 2013 by admin | Comments Off
A glitch-cabaret of haunted circuitry and phantom language. Taking its name and inspiration from Konstantin Raudive’s 1970s experiments into hearing unidentified voices in electronic interference, EVP is a brand-new programme of performance works divining the role of voices-from-beyond in the creative process. Whether muses, ancestors-cum-confidantes, the subconscious or ephemeral static, the project asks how voices [...]
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A word in your shell-like: Nia Davies on The Listener
Posted 11 February 2013 by admin | Comments Off
The maxim ‘seeing is believing’ is enduring. We’ll believe it when we see. Meanwhile we may distrust what is only heard, smelt or felt. Hearing is essential or unavoidable in the experience of most art that isn’t music or sound-related and yet it very often ‘eclipsed’ by the visual when it comes to discourse around [...]
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‘Half-articulated wailings’: Nia Davies on The Voice
Posted 28 January 2013 by admin | Comments Off
What is it about an unidentified sound – a noise with no visible source – an acousmatic rustle in the bushes? We regularly tune out unwanted background noise but some sounds jolt us awake in the night, stop us dead in our tracks or silence our conversations. Mid-winter, walking in Abney Park Cemetery in London [...]
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Rorschach Audio Book Release
Posted 28 January 2013 by admin | Comments Off
This just in from Joe Banks / Disinformation. Wonderfully argued, eccentric and impassioned (The Quietus) What are the connections between Leonardo da Vinci and Dick Whittington, between the BBC Monitoring Service and punk band The Clash, between wartime military intelligence work, visual arts theory, battle management systems, Spiritualism, radio and recording technology and criminal witness [...]
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Boursnell & Riviere: 5 actions / 5 texts / 5 songs
Posted 10 January 2013 by admin | Comments Off
Live artist John Boursnell documents the development of 5 actions / 5 texts / 5 songs – a work in collaboration with poet Sam Riviere. It used repeated actions, lo-fi sounds, ball-bearing dropping and Polaroid picture-taking to create patchworks of quiet sounds and ‘concrète songs’. * 0 At the start of this. The voice was [...]
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Nathan Jones charts the development of EVP
Posted 19 December 2012 by nathan | Comments Off
The Electronic Voice Phenomena story so far… Auspicious beginings: a venn diagramme featuring eference points for the first EVP show – Star Trek, Rolf Harris, Gertrude Stein, Chris Packham, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and a Tuvan Throat Singer EVP is a curatorial strand, and something of a personal obsession, which started out just as a cool [...]
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Rorschach Audio and the Cemetery of Sounds
Posted 7 November 2012 by admin | Comments (3)
Just as our ancestors perceived thunder as “Theophany” – “The Voice of God”, in much the same way, similarly anthropomorphic misperceptions of sounds of wind are probably the most primal manifestation of what is commonly perceived as the memetically archetypal sound of a ghost (the ghost of film and folklore, which drifts across rooms, clothed [...]
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Bird Talking
Posted 7 November 2012 by admin | Comments Off
This is a kind of nature poetry found in the repetition a machine allows. It’s the only kind of poetry I can make. Weblink: Emma Bennett’s Bird Talking. * Listen to approximate robin: *
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Glissolalia
Posted 7 November 2012 by admin | Comments Off
Aura Satz explores ghostly presence and illusion through performance and sound, often focussed on unusual sonic devices, early musical instruments and automata. [...] The basic components of Glissolalia have a haunting ghostly sound, playing on the notion of glissando, merging each element with the next, as well as the idea of glossolalia (religious speaking in [...]
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Featured blogs
Nathan Jones charts the development of EVP
Unspeakable Telephony: Ulysses
Describing Silence (6 Distortions)
Instructions for Catch* Construction
Better night vision, more vegetarianism: Stan Gooch’s Total Man
Subliminal messages: Judas Priest and the mythology of suicide
Synchronicity: Ross Sutherland and the Poetry of the Crystal Maze
Munster Page Habit 2 by Mark Leahy
The Render Ghosts – James Bridle
“Who You Gonna Call?” – Sophie Mayer meets the Ghost Librarian
The Shape of Oblivion: Poetry and the Rollercoaster
Glitchenskypen by Mark Amerika
Antonio Roberts AKA Hellocatfood commission
Echoes of Individuation: The Black Stack, Bicameral Minds & EVP
Curt Cloninger: Static Trapped in Mouths
“Peter Coffin: The Ecological Mystic (or how to appreciate the inherent stupidity of everything)”
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