High Static, Dead Lines - Sonic Spectres and the Object Hereafter
Author(s): Kristen Gallerneaux
NOISE / INDUSTRIAL / EXPERIMENTAL | STRANGE ATTRACTOR
A literary mix tape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape and esoteric belief. Trees rigged up to the wireless radio heavens. A fax machine used to decode the language of hurricanes. A broadcast ghost that hijacked a television station to terrorize a city. A failed computer factory in the desert with a slap-back echo resounding into ruin. In High Static, Dead Lines, media historian and artist Kristen Gallerneaux weaves a literary mix tape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape, and esoteric belief. Essays and fictocritical interludes are arranged to evoke a network of ley lines for the "sonic spectre" to travel through -- a hypothetical presence that manifests itself as an invisible layer of noise alongside the conventional histories of technological artifacts. The objects and stories within span from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, touching upon military, communications, and cultural history. A connective thread is the recurring presence of sound -- audible, self-generative, and remembered -- charting the contentious sonic histories of paranormal culture.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Strange Attractor Press
- : Strange Attractor Press
- : September 2018
- : books
Special Fields
- : Kristen Gallerneaux
- : Paperback
- : 1811
- : 264