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03.06.2016
22 Minuten
This episode begins (just about) and ends (indeed) with recordings
of Alessandro Moreschi – AKA the Angel of Rome – AKA the Last
Castrato. His recordings are the only surviving sounds of
a tradition of castrated male singers that lasted over 350 years,
and mutilated countless thousands of innocent children in
the process. We chart the rise and fall of
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14.05.2016
21 Minuten
This episode concludes our recent discussion on death and the
phonograph. We talk about: the last message of Cardinal
Manning, Alfred Tennyson’s phonograph recordings and Bram Stoker’s
Dracula. The episode ends with a lesser known story by Jules
Verne, a forerunner of Dracula in a way, that I’m sure you’ll
enjoy.
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25.04.2016
21 Minuten
This episode continues our exploration of spiritualism, death and
the phonograph with a discussion of the life, death and
resurrection of the great English poet Robert Browning.
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11.04.2016
21 Minuten
We broaden our discussion of technology and Victorian spiritualism
to include: WT Stead and the sinking of the Titanic, more on the
19th century connections between magic and science, as well as HP
Blavatsky, the Theosophical Society, Annie Besant and Jiddu
Krishnamurti.
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24.03.2016
24 Minuten
In this episode we begin an exploration of death and the phonograph
that will continue for a few more episodes. We begin this
particular journey into the beyond by taking a deeper look into the
connections between technology and Victorian spiritualism. This
episode features an excerpt of a recording of Arthur Conan Doyle
describing how
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Über diesen Podcast
This podcast ponders the moment we began to play back recorded
sounds. It’s a factual history of the phonograph and gramophone,
but told through dreams and nightmares of the voices of the dead,
the nature of time, the rapture, AI, androids, elephants, canned
foods, mechanical menaces, alchemy, and so on. Now hear this.
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