Liquid Architecture and the Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA are pleased to present British sound artist and writer Joe Banks in Australia for the first time

Theories and Histories of Sound: Rorschach Audio

In Rorschach Audio: Art & Illusion for Sound, Banks offers a critical account of Spiritualistic and allegedly supernatural Electronic Voice Phenomena (ghost­voice) recordings, tracing the uncanny phenomena back through the histories of art, literature and the little-known audio monitoring work by UK wartime intelligence agencies. Banks argues that ‘the earliest form of sound recording technology was not a machine but was written language’, illustrating the argument via a series of fascinating and bizarre psychoacoustic illusions.

The talk will be followed by a short response from artist and researcher Ceri Hann (RMIT) before being opened to discussion.