Table Of ContentUNSOUND UNDEAD
Dedicated to Alina Popa
01.02.1982—01.02.2019
‘If the Abstraction is complete
there is no more experience.’
UNSOUND UNDEAD
Edited by
Steve Goodman, Toby Heys, Eleni Ikoniadou
Published in 2019 by
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Contents
Intra-AUDINT Email Communication—IREX2 to the Editors ix
Declassified Report to IIRIS: Excerpts from Report on The Research Unit AUDINT xi
Introduction: From Martial Hauntology to Xenosonics 1
SOMA
The Bodily Sounds of the Abyss Olga Goriunova 7
The Ear Phonautograph Jonathan Sterne 11
The Music of Skulls I: Bone-Instruments Al Cameron 15
Peripheral Vibrations Shelley Trower 19
Touching Nothing Steve Goodman 23
The Cat Telephone Jonathan Sterne 27
The Pineal Ear Brooker Buckingham 31
DRNE Cartography Steve Goodman 35
VOX
Screaming Matthew Fuller 43
The Missing 19dB Lawrence Abu Hamdan 47
Machine Sirens and Vocal Intelligence Luciana Parisi 53
Falling Eleni Ikoniadou 57
Glossolalia Agnès Gayraud 61
Libraries of Voices Shelley Trower 65
The HyperSonic Sound System Toby Heys 69
The Lament Eleni Ikoniadou 73
UVO
The Jodhpur Boom Paul Purgas 79
The Bloop S. Ayesha Hameed 83
Sound of the Abyss Eugene Thacker 87
The Hum Kristen Gallerneaux 91
Alligators of Your Mind Dave Tompkins 95
Resonance Erik Davis 101
Dossier 37: Unidentified Vibrational Objects on the Plane Of Unbelief Steve Goodman 105
The Auditory Hallucination The Occulture 109
SIG
The Max Headroom Signal Intrusion Kristen Gallerneaux 115
Keep Me in the Loop Dave Tompkins 119
The Music Of Skulls II: Osteography Al Cameron 123
Backmasking Toby Heys 127
China and the Wireless Wave Anna Greenspan 131
2014: The Visual Microphone Lendl Barcelos 135
The Thing Amy Ireland 137
Large Hadron Collider: The Ultimate Underground Groove Toby Heys 141
RWD
Duppy Conquerors, Rolling Calves, and Flights to Zion Julian Henriques 147
Days of Wrath Eugene Thacker 151
Revival Agnès Gayraud 153
Holojax Toby Heys 157
Digital Immortality Julian Henriques 161
Death by Euro Steve Goodman 165
Ancient to the Future Steven Shaviro 169
Rapparitions Toby Heys 173
XFD
The Solitary Practice of the Vanishing Concert Pianist Tim Hecker 179
Ghost In The Machine: Hikikomori And Digital Dualism Lisa Blanning 183
A Brief Defence Of New Age Audio Erik Davis 187
Purgatory Nicola Masciandaro 191
VR of Void Alina Popa 197
Delusions of the Living Dead Toby Heys 203
Jupiter S. Ayesha Hameed 211
Sonic Spectralities: Sketches for a Prolegomena to Any Future Xenosonics Charlie Blake 215
KODE
Blood And Fire Anthony Nine 221
Archaeoacoustics Paul Purgas 227
nimiia vibié Log Jenna Sutela 229
The Baton Of Diabolus Georgina Rochefort 235
Nurlu Amy Ireland 241
They Echoic: Exquisite Corpse Lee Gamble 245
The Sonic Egregor The Occulture 247
Sorrow Nicola Masciandaro 251
D+P
A Sonic Autopsy of the Waco Siege Toby Heys 255
Ghost Army: The Deceit of the Battle DJ Steve Goodman, Toby Heys, Eleni Ikoniadou 259
Shocks On The Body: The End of Life by Sound Tim Hecker 265
Wandering Soul / Ghost Tape No. 10 Steve Goodman, Toby Heys, Eleni Ikoniadou 269
‘We Are The Gods Trapped In Cocoons’: Neural Entrainment In Get Out Kodwo Eshun 275
Muzak And The Working Dead Toby Heys 279
The Animal Whose Ear It Is Ramona Naddaff 285
Pain ©Amp Economics Toby Heys 289
Contributors 295
Index 301
INTRA-AUDINT
EMAIL COMMUNICATION—
IREX2 TO THE EDITORS
Program: Neural History Compressor
Project: AUDpub003
Date: 2017
Sender: IREX2
Spectral Range: Unsound : Undead
Transmission Mode: Print-based compendium
Research Operatives: AUDINT staff
Receiver: Frontal Lobe Network/ Grid
Comments: 128-term encryption key
Objective: Decompress to 64 bits
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