Acousmatology by Monitron

"The famous fingertapper Thomas Alva Edison, though partially deaf, made innumerable contributions to the early history of the cut throat. He was especially articulate when pronouncing dramatic overtures for his own uncanny phonographic inventions: This tongueless, toothless instrument, without larynx or pharynx, dumb, voiceless matter, nevertheless utters your words…What our dead air amounts to, in the end, is a thriving population of partially decapitated and decayed remains from an infinity of public outerings and private mutterance. FT. Marinetti, who was particularly fond of head wounds, referred to this population as I'imaginatione senza fili, the wireless imagination. How can we begin to figure out the nature and intent of such a teeming mass of wounded drifters, cut loose from the natural warmth of the human glottis and cast forth into the cold anti-nature of the schizophonic speech apparatus, left to decay, beyond all sense, inside a crackling inferno of garbled interference?
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In the magnetic remains of some disembodies, we observe the spontaneous inhibition of postmortem changes known in the field as soaping the stiff. This process, largely chemical in nature, involves the translation of fatty laryngeal substances, such as conditional verbs, into a highly viscous wax. The body of the voice can then be resurrected only through the sustained application of external pressure, exerted through a sharp stylus. From here on, talk of authentic meaning is buried in the nether world of noise and interference. lt all starts to sound like utter nonsense to the original speaker, who invariably responds by saying: ls that how my voice really sounds?"

Whitehead, G. 1990, 'Principia Schizophonica: on noise, gas and the broadcast disembody', Art & Text, No.37, pp60-61

Tracklist

1.	Noi//psy	10:08

2.	Adjunkt Unjustice (Transference)	19:47

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released October 31, 2015

Inscribed at fieldstone, willowvale

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