Our guest this time around is Dr. Kristen Gallerneaux, an artist, curator and sonic researcher with a Ph.D. in Art Practice & Media History, an MA in Folklore and an MFA in Art. She is also the Curator of Communication and Information Technology at The Henry Ford Museum in Detroit, Michigan, where she continues to build upon one of the largest historical technology collections in North America.
But it is Kristen’s recent book High Static, Dead Lines that forms the basis for our conversation. This book has been described as “a literary mixtape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape and esoteric belief.”
The book contains essays and fictocritical interludes are arranged to evoke a network of ley lines for the “sonic spectre” to travel through—a hypothetical presence that manifests itself as an invisible layer of noise alongside the conventional histories of technological artifacts. And the connective thread is the recurring presence of sound charting the contentious sonic histories of paranormal culture.
PATREON EXTENSION
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Tree telephony & the internet of trees
Charles Francis Jenkins’ work on marine fax machines & listening to Mars
Hacking TV stations & broadcast possession
ARPANET, bridging dimensions, witchcraft & coding
Legend tripping & local folklore
Imprinted trauma & memory on objects & physical places
Loving the trauma of horror films
George Tyrell’s theory of apparitions & “when I think a haunting, I make a haunting”
RESOURCES
High Static, Dead Lines on Strange Attractor: http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/6111/
High Static, Dead Lines on IndieBound: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781907222665
High Static, Dead Lines on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2R0L581
Kristen’s website: http://kristengallerneaux.com/
Kristen on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/k_gallerneaux/
Kristen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kgallerneaux/
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MERCH
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MUSIC
Vestron Vulture - “I Want to Be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)”: https://soundcloud.com/thevulturex/2-i-want-to-be-a-robot-tribute
Occams Laser - “Martyr Farker (Occulture Edit)”: https://occamslaser.bandcamp.com/track/martyr-farker
PRODUCTION & LICENSING
This podcast is produced in the Kingdom of Ohio and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
Executive Producers: Mike K., Carter Y., Mauricio G., Alyssa S., Daniel R., Kelly C., Kaleb H., Bruce H., Corey T., David G., Jeremy V., Marcelo T., Christopher B., Leonidas, Timothy W., Caleb C., VH Frater RC’s Hermetic Study Group, Nick F., Michael Q., Jamaica J., Mute Ryan, John W., Paul S., Andy E., James B., Colleen F., Ed O., Blake S.
REMINDER
Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.
