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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London :
Strange Attractor Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword : don't go chasing heads over waterfalls / by Dave Tompkins
- Introduction
- I. Dead lines. Electric line events
- We are not yet experts : the mimetic dead, paranormal acoustics, and the medium Jesse Shepard
- Elizabeth Street apports
- II. Up there. Nothing is static in the tides : from the sea to Mars with Charles Francis Jenkins
- Book street skies
- Squire's music for the trees
- Radio Cadiz : up the hatch with the Piccards
- III. Frequencies. Tune in to the tummy : Vladimir Zworykin's radio pill
- Charles Apgar & sordid frequencies
- Calling, haunting
- All together now, speaking on a beam of light : an impure history of the maser and laser
- Hello my name is Vortax
- Fetch X (living ghost lifts up the receiver)
- Rush in reverse
- IV. Broadcast. We haunt you while you watch : TV hijackings, the eerie in the middle, and cochlear control
- War, wire, magnets
- We bridge the dead/breakthrough
- V. Playing the spectre. Humming through salt : AUDINT's spurious frequencies
- Prison radio/shotgun
- Performance rituals : the moog prototype
- Dirt synth : excavating the sounds of the poltergeist
- VI. Anchors. Prospector stake from a mythical lake
- The domes : aural fieldwork at the end of the line
- Black bridge
- Throwing the apparition of a brick through a real ghost : a conversation with the author / by Dave Tompkins.