Cashmere Specials - Ghostly Rearrangements with Nathan Gray

This mix, for the exhibition 'Ghosting' of the M.1 Arthur Boskamp Foundation, draws on the idea of media and medium-ship. In the spiritualist sense, radio in particular is a medium, an intermediary that channels unseen intelligences. We can take this as face value, that the acousmatic experience of listening to the radio makes disembodied thoughts appear as words, not just in the air, but in our minds.

In the late 19th and early 20th Century both Marconi and Tesla picked up mysterious voices from their radio experiments, assuming them to be undead or extra-terrestrial. Around the same time, Edison attempted to develop a technology specifically to receive the voices of the dead.

In 1957 painter and archaeologist Friedrich Jürgensen began to notice strange interferences...

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