Social history of technology podcasters Carl Attrill + Leila Johnston in conversation with Joe Banks, producer of the art and music project Disinformation (interview date 12 Sept 2023)...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QLYFKMJU9o/
... discussing the Radio 4 “Today” programme, Hari Kunzru on Sky TV, “National Grid” (sound artwork), Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio art, Channel 4 “Electric Skies”, Shortwave Magazine, Mike Harding and Ash International, Disobey (club night), the Royal College of Art, Lewisham Arthouse, David Land Arts Centre, the prehistory of “National Grid” (circa 1982), London Underground, “Sense Data & Perception” CD, The Wire magazine, Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP), “Rorschach Audio”, sine-wave speech, (alleged) Satanic back-masking, perceptual hypotheses, sub-bass, acid house, dub reggae, “Foetal and infant hypnagogic sense memories...”, Fabrica Gallery, The Foundry, anechoic chambers, Pawel Jastreboff and Tinnitus Retraining Therapy, the Post Office (now British Telecom) Research Station (at Martlesham Heath), “System X” (sound artwork, Nov 2017), the Post Office Tower (aka Telecom Tower, aka BT Tower), Post Office Telecommunications, GCHQ, Berlin Wall, “Spycatcher”, Alan Turing, Pilot ACE, “Language [as] Meta-Technology” (sound artwork), Marshall McLuhan, “The ultimate form of communications technology…”, “Electro War”, BBC Daventry, Mark Pilkington, Frankenstein, analogue TV, Barry Hale, Sound Mirrors (aka “Blackout” video artwork), “The Noise” (sound installation), “A Dictionary of the Underworld”, Outernet Arts, and… Ferris Bueller.
Image: Anechoic chamber at the Post Office Research Station, Martlesham Heath - POTJ, 29, 2, 1977
