Tracing the the potential of sound, infrasound, and ultrasound to access anomalous zones of transmission between the realms of the living and the dead.
For as long as recording and communications technologies have existed, operators have evoked the potential of sound, infrasound, and ultrasound to access anomalous zones of transmission between the realms of the living and the dead. In Unsound: Undead, contributors from a variety of disciplines chart these undead zones, mapping out a nonlinear timeline populated by sonic events stretching from the 8th century BC (the song of the Sirens), to 2013 (acoustic levitation), with a speculative extension into 2057 (the emergence of holographic and holosonic phenomena).
For the past seven years the AUDINT group has been researching peripheral sonic perception (unsound) and the ways in which frequencies are utilized to modulate our understanding of presence/non-presence, entertainment/torture, and ultimately life/death. Concurrently, themes of hauntology have inflected the musical zeitgeist, resonating with the notion of a general cultural malaise and a reinvestment in traces of lost futures inhabiting the present.
This undead culture has already spawned a Lazarus economy in which Tupac, ODB, and Eazy-E are digitally revivified as laser-lit holograms. The obscure otherworldly dimensions of sound have also been explored in the sonic fictions produced by the likes of Drexciya, Sun Ra, and Underground Resistance, where hauntology is virtually extended: the future appears in the cracks of the present.
The contributions to this volume reveal how the sonic nurtures new dimensions in which the real and the imagined (fictional, hyperstitional, speculative) bleed into one another, where actual sonic events collide with spatiotemporal anomalies and time-travelling entities, and where the unsound serves to summon the undead.
Contributors
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lendl Barcelos, Charlie Blake, Lisa Blanning, Brooker Buckingham, Al Cameron, Erik Davis, Kodwo Eshun, Matthew Fuller, Kristen Gallerneaux, Lee Gamble, Agn s Gayraud, Steve Goodman, Anna Greenspan, Olga Gurionova, S. Ayesha Hameed, Tim Hecker, Julian Henriques, Toby Heys, Eleni Ikoniadou, Amy Ireland, Nicola Masciandaro, Ramona Naddaff, Anthony Nine, The Occulture, Luciana Parisi, Alina Popa, Paul Purgas, Georgina Rochefort, Steven Shaviro, Jonathan Sterne, Jenna Sutela, Eugene Thacker, Dave Tompkins, Shelley Trower, and Souzana Zamfe.
Steve Goodman is a Lecturer in Music Culture at the School of Sciences, Media, and Cultural Studies at the University of East London, a member of the CCRU (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit), and the founder of the record label Hyperdub.
Toby Heys, a member of AUDINT, is Reader in Digital Media and the Head of Research for the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University. His cross-disciplinary research focuses on the ways that frequencies are utilized by governments and industry to influence, manipulate, and torture. He is the author of
Sound Pressure, to be published in 2019.
Eleni Ikoniadou is a Lecturer in Media in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, London.
AUDINT is a sonic research unit exploring the weaponization of vibration, developing cartographies of liminal waveformed perception (unsound), and investigating the ways in which frequencies are utilized to modulate our understanding of presence/non-presence, entertainment/torture, and ultimately life/death. More information can be found at www.audint.net.
Toby Heys, a member of AUDINT, is Reader in Digital Media and the Head of Research for the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University. His cross-disciplinary research focuses on the ways that frequencies are utilized by governments and industry to influence, manipulate, and torture. He is the author of
Sound Pressure, to be published in 2019.
Luciana Parisi is a Senior Lecturer and runs the MA program in Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice at the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University of London.
Steve Goodman is a Lecturer in Music Culture at the School of Sciences, Media, and Cultural Studies at the University of East London, a member of the CCRU (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit), and the founder of the record label Hyperdub.
Matthew Fuller is Professor of Cultural Studies at the Digital Culture Unit, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of
Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture (MIT Press),
Software Studies (MIT Press), and, with Andrew Goffey, of
Evil Media (MIT Press) as well as
Behind the Blip: Essays on the Culture of Software and other books.
Toby Heys, a member of AUDINT, is Reader in Digital Media and the Head of Research for the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University. His cross-disciplinary research focuses on the ways that frequencies are utilized by governments and industry to influence, manipulate, and torture. He is the author of
Sound Pressure, to be published in 2019.
Julian Henriques is Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Eleni Ikoniadou is a Lecturer in Media in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, London.
Scott Wilson is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Birmingham, England.
Kristen Gallerneaux is a writer, folklorist, and artist. She has published on topics as diverse as mathematics in midcentury design, the visual history of telepathy research, the world's first mouse pad, and car audio bass battles in Miami. She is also Curator of Communications and Information Technology at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, where she continues to build upon one of the largest historic technology collections in North America.
Toby Heys, a member of AUDINT, is Reader in Digital Media and the Head of Research for the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University. His cross-disciplinary research focuses on the ways that frequencies are utilized by governments and industry to influence, manipulate, and torture. He is the author of
Sound Pressure, to be published in 2019.
Eugene Thacker is Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Eleni Ikoniadou is a Lecturer in Media in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, London.
Erik Davis is an American journalist, critic, podcaster, counter-public intellectual whose writings have run the gamut from rock criticism to cultural analysis to creative explorations of esoteric mysticism. He is the author of
Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information,
The Visionary State: A Journey through California's Spiritual Landscape, and
Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica.
Ayesha Hameed is currently the Co-Programme Leader for the PhD in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Julian Henriques is Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Toby Heys, a member of AUDINT, is Reader in Digital Media and the Head of Research for the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University. His cross-disciplinary research focuses on the ways that frequencies are utilized by governments and industry to influence, manipulate, and torture. He is the author of
Sound Pressure, to be published in 2019.
Agnès Gayraud is a French musician and philosopher born in 1979. She teaches theory at the Villa Arson (National Art School) in Nice. She has gained critical acclaim for her musical practice (as La Féline) and is a regular writer for the daily paper
Libération.
Ayesha Hameed is currently the Co-Programme Leader for the PhD in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Steven Shaviro is DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. He is the author of
Passion and Excess: Blanchot, Bataille, and Literary Theory and
The Cinematic Body. Toby Heys, a member of AUDINT, is Reader in Digital Media and the Head of Research for the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University. His cross-disciplinary research focuses on the ways that frequencies are utilized by governments and industry to influence, manipulate, and torture. He is the author of
Sound Pressure, to be published in 2019.
Agnès Gayraud is a French musician and philosopher born in 1979. She teaches theory at the Villa Arson (National Art School) in Nice. She has gained critical acclaim for her musical practice (as La Féline) and is a regular writer for the daily paper
Libération.
Steve Goodman is a Lecturer in Music Culture at the School of Sciences, Media, and Cultural Studies at the University of East London, a member of the CCRU (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit), and the founder of the record label Hyperdub.
Toby Heys, a member of AUDINT, is Reader in Digital Media and the Head of Research for the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University. His cross-disciplinary research focuses on the ways that frequencies are utilized by governments and industry to influence, manipulate, and torture. He is the author of
Sound Pressure, to be published in 2019.
Steve Goodman is a Lecturer in Music Culture at the School of Sciences, Media, and Cultural Studies at the University of East London, a member of the CCRU (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit), and the founder of the record label Hyperdub.
Eugene Thacker is Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Erik Davis is an American journalist, critic, podcaster, counter-public intellectual whose writings have run the gamut from rock criticism to cultural analysis to creative explorations of esoteric mysticism. He is the author of
Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information,
The Visionary State: A Journey through California's Spiritual Landscape, and
Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica.
Kristen Gallerneaux is a writer, folklorist, and artist. She has published on topics as diverse as mathematics in midcentury design, the visual history of telepathy research, the world's first mouse pad, and car audio bass battles in Miami. She is also Curator of Communications and Information Technology at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, where she continues to build upon one of the largest historic technology collections in North America.
Steve Goodman is a Lecturer in Music Culture at the School of Sciences, Media, and Cultural Studies at the University of East London, a member of the CCRU (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit), and the founder of the record label Hyperdub.
Toby Heys, a member of AUDINT, is Reader in Digital Media and the Head of Research for the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University. His cross-disciplinary research focuses on the ways that frequencies are utilized by governments and industry to influence, manipulate, and torture. He is the author of
Sound Pressure, to be published in 2019.
Steve Goodman is a Lecturer in Music Culture at the School of Sciences, Media, and Cultural Studies at the University of East London, a member of the CCRU (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit), and the founder of the record label Hyperdub.
Toby Heys, a member of AUDINT, is Reader in Digital Media and the Head of Research for the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University. His cross-disciplinary research focuses on the ways that frequencies are utilized by governments and industry to influence, manipulate, and torture. He is the author of
Sound Pressure, to be published in 2019.
Eleni Ikoniadou is a Lecturer in Media in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, London.
Toby Heys, a member of AUDINT, is Reader in Digital Media and the Head of Research for the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University. His cross-disciplinary research focuses on the ways that frequencies are utilized by governments and industry to influence, manipulate, and torture. He is the author of
Sound Pressure, to be published in 2019.
Toby Heys, a member of AUDINT, is Reader in Digital Media and the Head of Research for the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University. His cross-disciplinary research focuses on the ways that frequencies are utilized by governments and industry to influence, manipulate, and torture. He is the author of
Sound Pressure, to be published in 2019.
Steve Goodman is a Lecturer in Music Culture at the School of Sciences, Media, and Cultural Studies at the University of East London, a member of the CCRU (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit), and the founder of the record label Hyperdub.
Toby Heys, a member of AUDINT, is Reader in Digital Media and the Head of Research for the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University. His cross-disciplinary research focuses on the ways that frequencies are utilized by governments and industry to influence, manipulate, and torture. He is the author of
Sound Pressure, to be published in 2019.
史蒂夫·古德曼（Steve Goodman）是東倫敦大學科學、媒體與文化研究學院的音樂文化講師，也是CCRU（控制文化研究單位）的成員，並創立了唱片公司Hyperdub。
托比·海斯（Toby Heys）是AUDINT的成員，擔任曼徹斯特城市大學數位藝術學院（School of Digital Arts, SODA）的數位媒體讀者及研究主任。他的跨學科研究專注於政府和產業如何利用頻率來影響、操控和折磨。他是《Sound Pressure》的作者，該書將於2019年出版。
艾琳尼·伊科尼亞杜（Eleni Ikoniadou）是倫敦金斯頓大學藝術與社會科學學院的媒體講師。
AUDINT是一個聲音研究單位，探索振動的武器化，開發邊緣波形感知（unsound）的地圖，並調查頻率如何被用來調節我們對存在/不存在、娛樂/折磨，最終是生命/死亡的理解。更多信息可以在www.audint.net找到。
馬修·富勒（Matthew Fuller）是倫敦金史密斯大學數位文化單位的文化研究教授。他是《Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture》（麻省理工學院出版社）、《Software Studies》（麻省理工學院出版社）以及與安德魯·戈菲（Andrew Goffey）合著的《Evil Media》（麻省理工學院出版社）和《Behind the Blip: Essays on the Culture of Software》等書的作者。
朱利安·亨里克斯（Julian Henriques）是倫敦金史密斯大學的媒體與傳播教授。
艾琳尼·伊科尼亞杜（Eleni Ikoniadou）是倫敦金斯頓大學藝術與社會科學學院的媒體講師。
斯科特·威爾遜（Scott Wilson）是英國伯明翰大學的音樂高級講師。
克里斯滕·加勒內克斯（Kristen Gallerneaux）是一位作家、民俗學家和藝術家。她的出版作品涵蓋了從中世紀設計中的數學、心靈感應研究的視覺歷史、世界上第一個滑鼠墊到邁阿密的汽車音響低音戰鬥等多樣主題。她還是密歇根州迪爾伯恩亨利·福特博物館的通訊與信息技術策展人，繼續擴展北美最大的歷史技術收藏之一。
尤金·薩克（Eugene Thacker）是喬治亞理工學院文學、傳播與文化學院的助理教授。
艾琳尼·伊科尼亞杜（Eleni Ikoniadou）是倫敦金斯頓大學藝術與社會科學學院的媒體講師。
埃里克·戴維斯（Erik Davis）是一位美國記者、評論家、播客主持人和反公共知識分子，他的著作涵蓋了從搖滾評論到文化分析，再到對神秘主義的創意探索。他是《Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information》、《The Visionary State: A Journey through California's Spiritual Landscape》和《Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica》的作者。
艾莎·哈米德（Ayesha Hameed）目前是倫敦金史密斯大學視覺文化博士課程的共同項目負責人。
朱利安·亨里克斯（Julian Henriques）是倫敦金史密斯大學的媒體與傳播教授。
托比·海斯（Toby Heys）是AUDINT的成員，擔任曼徹斯特城市大學數位藝術學院（School of Digital Arts, SODA）的數位媒體讀者及研究主任。他的跨學科研究專注於政府和產業如何利用頻率來影響、操控和折磨。他是《Sound Pressure》的作者，該書將於2019年出版。
阿涅斯·蓋羅（Agnès Gayraud）是一位1979年出生的法國音樂家和哲學家。她在尼斯的阿爾松別墅（Villa Arson，國立藝術學校）教授理論。她因其音樂實踐（以La Féline的名義）而獲得了批評界的讚譽，並且是日報《解放》（Libération）的定期撰稿人。
艾莎·哈米德（Ayesha Hameed）目前是倫敦金史密斯大學視覺文化博士課程的共同項目負責人。
史蒂文·沙維羅（Steven Shaviro）是韋恩州立大學的德羅伊英語教授。他是《Passion and Excess: Blanchot, Bataille, and Literary Theory》和《The Cinematic Body》的作者。
托比·海斯（Toby Heys）是AUDINT的成員，擔任曼徹斯特城市大學數位藝術學院（School of Digital Arts, SODA）的數位媒體讀者及研究主任。他的跨學科研究專注於政府和產業如何利用頻率來影響、操控和折磨。他是《Sound Pressure》的作者，該書將於2019年出版。
阿涅斯·蓋羅（Agnès Gayraud）是一位1979年出生的法國音樂家和哲學家。她在尼斯的阿爾松別墅（Villa Arson，國立藝術學校）教授理論。她因其音樂實踐（以La Féline的名義）而獲得了批評界的讚譽，並且是日報《解放》（Libération）的定期撰稿人。
史蒂夫·古德曼（Steve Goodman）是東倫敦大學科學、媒體與文化研究學院的音樂文化講師，也是CCRU（控制文化研究單位）的成員，並創立了唱片公司Hyperdub。
托比·海斯（Toby Heys）是AUDINT的成員，擔任曼徹斯特城市大學數位藝術學院（School of Digital Arts, SODA）的數位媒體讀者及研究主任。他的跨學科研究專注於政府和產業如何利用頻率來影響、操控和折磨。他是《Sound Pressure》的作者，該書將於2019年出版。
史蒂夫·古德曼（Steve Goodman）是東倫敦大學科學、媒體與文化研究學院的音樂文化講師，也是CCRU（控制文化研究單位）的成員，並創立了唱片公司Hyperdub。
尤金·薩克（Eugene Thacker）是喬治亞理工學院文學、傳播與文化學院的助理教授。
埃里克·戴維斯（Erik Davis）是一位美國記者、評論家、播客主持人和反公共知識分子，他的著作涵蓋了從搖滾評論到文化分析，再到對神秘主義的創意探索。他是《Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information》、《The Visionary State: A Journey through California's Spiritual Landscape》和《Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica》的作者。
克里斯滕·加勒內克斯（Kristen Gallerneaux）是一位作家、民俗學家和藝術家。她的出版作品涵蓋了從中世紀設計中的數學、心靈感應研究的視覺歷史、世界上第一個滑鼠墊到邁阿密的汽車音響低音戰鬥等多樣主題。她還是密歇根州迪爾伯恩亨利·福特博物館的通訊與信息技術策展人，繼續擴展北美最大的歷史技術收藏之一。
史蒂夫·古德曼（Steve Goodman）是東倫敦大學科學、媒體與文化研究學院的音樂文化講師，也是CCRU（控制文化研究單位）的成員，並創立了唱片公司Hyperdub。
托比·海斯（Toby Heys）是AUDINT的成員，擔任曼徹斯特城市大學數位藝術學院（School of Digital Arts, SODA）的數位媒體讀者及研究主任。他的跨學科研究專注於政府和產業如何利用頻率來影響、操控和折磨。他是《Sound Pressure》的作者，該書將於2019年出版。
艾琳尼·伊科尼亞杜（Eleni Ikoniadou）是倫敦金斯頓大學藝術與社會科學學院的媒體講師。
托比·海斯（Toby Heys）是AUDINT的成員，擔任曼徹斯特城市大學數位藝術學院（School of Digital Arts, SODA）的數位媒體讀者及研究主任。他的跨學科研究專注於政府和產業如何利用頻率來影響、操控和折磨。他是《Sound Pressure》的作者，該書將於2019年出版。
托比·海斯（Toby Heys）是AUDINT的成員，擔任曼徹斯特城市大學數位藝術學院（School of Digital Arts, SODA）的數位媒體讀者及研究主任。他的跨學科研究專注於政府和產業如何利用頻率來影響、操控和折磨。他是《Sound Pressure》的作者，該書將於2019年出版。
史蒂夫·古德曼（Steve Goodman）是東倫敦大學科學、媒體與文化研究學院的音樂文化講師，也是CCRU（控制文化研究單位）的成員，並創立了唱片公司Hyperdub。
托比·海斯（Toby Heys）是AUDINT的成員，擔任曼徹斯特城市大學數位藝術學院（School of Digital Arts, SODA）的數位媒體讀者及研究主任。他的跨學科研究專注於政府和產業如何利用頻率來影響、操控和折磨。他是《Sound Pressure》的作者，該書將於2019年出版。
