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<div><font size="-1">"Rorschach Audio - Art & Illusion for
Sound" stresses the influence that relatively little-known wartime
intelligence work with<u> sound</u> had on one of the most important
works of<u> visual</u> arts theory ever published...</font><br>
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<div><font size="-1">"Engaging... packed with interest" -
The Times Literary Supplement</font><br>
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<div><font size="-1">"The cultural scope of the book is dizzying"
- The Quietus</font></div>
<div><font size="-1">"Amiable thoughtful... very intriguing"
- Art Monthly</font></div>
<div><font size="-1">"Fascinating work" - Steven
Pinker</font></div>
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<div><font size="-1">What are the connections between Leonardo da
Vinci and Dick Whittington, between the BBC Monitoring Service and
punk band The Clash, between wartime military intelligence work,
visual arts theory, battle management systems, Spiritualism, radio and
recording technology and criminal witness testimony? What role do JG
Ballard, Osama bin Laden, William Burroughs, Jean Cocteau, Richard
Dawkins, Jean Genet, William Hogarth, Pope Pius XII, Primo Levi,
proto-Surrealist writer Raymond Roussel, teenage criminal Derek
Bentley, Sigmund Freud and crystallographer Louis Albert Necker play
in the disentangling of mysteries of human perception?</font></div>
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<div><font size="-1">Taking a major cue from art historian EH
Gombrich's seminal text "Art & Illusion",
"Rorschach Audio" is a work of contemporary cultural
scholarship and an exploration of the art and science of
psychoacoustic ambiguities. Part detective story, part artistic and
cultural critique, "Rorschach Audio" lifts the lid on an
array of fascinating and under-examined perceptual and political
phenomena.</font></div>
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<div><font size="-1">"Rorschach Audio" is essential reading
for everyone interested in air-traffic control, anechoic chambers,
artificial oxygen carriers, audio art, bell-ringing, cocktail parties,
cognitive science, communications interference, compost, the death
penalty, Electronic Voice Phenomena, evangelism, evolutionary biology,
experimental music, ghosts, the historiography of art, illusions of
sound and illusions of language, lip-reading jokes, nuclear blast
craters, predictive texting, singing hair, sonic archives, sound
design, steam trains, tinnitus, the Turing Test, Victorian blood
painting, visual depth and space perception, ultrasonic visual music,
ventriloquism, voices and warehouse robberies and fires.</font></div>
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<div><font size="-1">"The earliest form of sound recording
technology was not a machine but was written language..."
(Rorschach Audio, page 96)</font><br>
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<div><font size="-1">Trade distribution by Turnaround</font><br>
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<div><font size="-1">ISBN 978-1-907222-20-7</font></div>
<div><font size="-1">Hardback, 191 pages</font></div>
<div><font size="-1">Art Theory, Cultural Studies</font></div>
<div><font size="-1">UK £10 Non-Fiction</font></div>
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<div><font size="-1">An early MIT Press version of "Rorschach
Audio" (published 2001) can be downloaded here -</font><br>
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>http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lmj/summary/v011/11.1banks.html</font></a
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<div><font size="-1">Rorschach Audio lecture-demonstrations have been
presented at The British Library, The Science Museum Dana Centre, The
Royal College of Art, The ICA, City University, Kings College &
Freud Museum (London), Liverpool Biennale, The Universities of Leeds
and Edinburgh, FHNW (Basel), Argos (Brussels), Arteleku (San
Sebastian), Gertrude Contemporary and MUMA (Melbourne).
"Rorschach Audio" sound artworks have been commissioned by
MUU Helsinki and Palais de Tokyo. Project supported by The Arts &
Humanities Research Council, Goldsmiths College (University of London)
and The Institute for Modern & Contemporary Culture at The
University of Westminster.</font></div>
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<div><font size="-1">Psychoacoustic Demonstration + Audio Test
Sequence...</font><br>
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<div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWzt1bI8AZ0"><font
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