Evgeny Bylina — Listening as hallucination, listening as desire, listening as fiction скачать в хорошем качестве

Evgeny Bylina — Listening as hallucination, listening as desire, listening as fiction

In 1959, Swedish producer and radio amateur Friedrich Jurgenson, while he was recording the birds, found strange voices on the tape — and decided that they belonged to his deceased relatives. Later, thanks to the work of his follower, psychologist Konstantin Raudive, such a phenomenon was called EVP (electronic voice phenomenon) and became one of the fields of study for fans of paranormal. In an effort to explain this mysterious phenomenon, psychologists mentioned pareidolia and apophenia, radio engineers — wave interference, while sound artists found another metaphorical resource for their artistic practice. However, if we reject rational skepticism and common sense, we can recall the words of Friedrich Kittler that after the invention of sound recording, ghosts have always haunted and shaped any discourse about the nature of sound. For example, the popularizer of radio Guglielmo Marconi believed that sounds do not disappear, but only become quieter — if we build a strong receiver, we can hear the Sermon on the Mount. Thomas Edison at the end of his life was going to create a «spirit phone». It is not necessary to mention that one of the main themes around contemporary electronic music has become Derridian «hauntology». What if we put aside our preconceptions and seriously listen to the voices that come out of nowhere? We will accept this belief in the course of the lecture and try to consider the various listening modes that arise in connection with the phenomenon of EVP. In our opinion, a detailed analysis through the prism of psychoanalysis, phenomenology and media-theory will allow us to re-raise the question of the nature of listening, the relationship of sound, voice and technology, as well as to analyze the subject itself, that enters into a relationship with the sonic. Evgeny Bylina is a cultural theorist, philosopher, lecturer at HSE Art and Design School, editor at New Literary Observer Publishing House.