Published
Mon, Apr 8, 2019, 12:30
- Unsound:Undead features essays by Tim Hecker, Lee Gamble and more.
A new essay collection titled Unsound:Undead is being published by Urbanomic.
Edited by Steve Goodman (AKA Hyperdub founder Kode9), Toby Heys and Eleni Ikoniadou, the book collects ten years of research by the AUDINT collective exploring how inaudible frequencies connect the living and the dead.
Featuring 64 short essays from musicians, writers and philosophers like Tim Hecker, Kodwo Eshun, Lee Gamble, Lisa Blanning and Paul Purgas, Unsound:Undead skirts a line between fact and fiction, veering from the "8th century BC (the song of the Sirens), to 2013 (acoustic levitation), and speculatively extending into 2057 (the emergence of holographic and holosonic phenomena)."
The enigmatic AUDINT crew has been responsible for a host of installations, tapes, records, software, performances and more since 2009. Neither a record label nor art collective, the group evades easy description. In conversation with Creative Applications, AUDINT said their research focuses "intensely on the phenomenon of vibration. Ever since the invention of recording technologies such as the phonograph and telephone, vibration has played a key role in military and scientific research, as well as in cultural production, due to its capacity not only to connect but to converge and deterritorialise the realms of the living and the dead."
You can learn more about the book and order a copy on the Urbanomic website.