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

Published: Sept. 9, 2020, 10 p.m.

b'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 (ghost\\xadvoice) 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 \\u2018the earliest form of sound recording technology was not a machine but was written language\\u2019.\\n\\nhttps://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/lecture-rorschach-audio/\\n\\nHistories and Theories of Sound\\n3 June, 2015\\nGertrude Contemporary, Fitzroy\\nPresented by Liquid Architecture and Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA\\n\\nAudio: Mara Schwerdtfeger\\n\\nFinancial support from patrons at any level has a resounding impact on our work. You can support Liquid Architecture\\u2019s weekly\\xa0podcast and our online journal Disclaimer, for new thinking and writing on listening and sound through a Patreon subscription, for as little as $5 a month. \\n\\nhttps://www.patreon.com/liquidarchitecture\\n\\nFor the past 20 years, Liquid Architecture has been Australia\\u2019s 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.'