High static dead lines : sonic spectres and the object hereafter /
A literary mix tape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape and esoteric belief. Trees rigged up to the wireless radio heavens. A fax machine used to decode the language of hurricanes. A broadcast ghost that hijacked a television station to terrorize a city....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Strange Attractor Press,
2018.
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| Summary: | A literary mix tape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape and esoteric belief. Trees rigged up to the wireless radio heavens. A fax machine used to decode the language of hurricanes. A broadcast ghost that hijacked a television station to terrorize a city. A failed computer factory in the desert with a slap-back echo resounding into ruin. In High Static, Dead Lines, media historian and artist Kristen Gallerneaux weaves a literary mix tape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape and esoteric belief. Essays and ficto-critical interludes are arranged to evoke a network of ley lines for the "sonic spectre" to travel through, a hypothetical presence that manifests itself as an invisible layer of noise alongside the conventional histories of technological artifacts. The objects and stories within span from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, touching upon military, communications and cultural history. A connective thread is the recurring presence of sound, audible, self-generative and remembered, charting the contentious sonic histories of paranormal culture. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 295 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781907222665 1907222669 |