Joe Banks: Rorschach Audio (Histories and Theories of Sound)

In Rorschach Audio: Art & Illusion for Sound, British sound artist and writer Joe Banks offers a critical account of Spiritualistic and allegedly supernatural Electronic Voice Phenomena (ghost­voice) recordings, tracing the uncanny phenomena back through the histories of art, literature and the little-known audio monitoring work by UK wartime intelligence agencies. Via a series of fascinating and bizarre psychoacoustic illusions Banks argues that ‘the earliest form of sound recording technology was not a machine but was written language’. https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/lecture-rorschach-audio/ Histories and Theories of Sound 3 June, 2015 Gertrude Contemporary, Fitzroy Presented by Liquid Architecture and Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA Audio: Mara Schwerdtfeger For the past 20 years, Liquid Architecture has been Australia’s leading organisation for artists working with sound and listening. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound and listening.