Hauntological brooding at Whitechapel

There's a discussion on audio hauntology over at Whitechapel.  Warren Ellis nudges the mobs, and I concur that this is a worthy subject, especially for Infocult.  The general header is haunted media, and the specific rubric is hauntological acoustics, to wit:

hauntology is an attempt to define that particular sonic which is the sound of the present being audibly haunted by the past. Songs heard as if from three rooms away, in the middle of the night. The ghostly music-boxes heard in Philip Jeck pieces. Crackle. There's a connection with Electronic Voice Phenomenon in there, and a tenuous connection is at least passively inferred with Paul Devereux's experiments in archaeoacoustics.

EVP is my first candidate here.  I'd add depictions of this kind of uncanny historicity music in other media (film, novels, tv, games, and alternate musical history).  Then reference some specific projects, like these current British occulturists. And remind us of the awesome power of soundtracks in movies.

I'm working on a hauntological Pandora channel.  Phil Jeck led to Oval, which led to Biosphere.  This theme would make for a fine music podcast.

Is this largely a British thing today?

Comments

[saramin]

How about Thomas Koner and Xela?

[saramin]

Post-lunch iPod frenzy: Also The Knife's Silent Shout.

[Bryan Alexander]

I don't know Koner or The Knife, saramin. When I fed Xela into Pandora, it replied with Randy Greif, "Street of Crocodiles".

More, please! he blegged.

[Steve B]

This is probably the Xela you are looking for:

http://www.myspace.com/learnwithxela

[Bryan Alexander]

Oh, nice. Thank you, Steve B.