Based on the Martial Hauntology vinyl/book/print project released on Audint records in late 2014, London’s Tate Britain gallery is hosting an infrasound/ultrasound/sound and video installation by Audint and loudspeaker specialist, Traction Sound.
Audint – a contraction of Audio Intelligence – is the team of Dr Toby Heys (Manchester School of Art) and Steve Goodman (AKA Kode9 from electronic label Hyperdub). For the installation in Tate Britain’s Duveens Gallery, they are presenting a projection of the animated film produced to accompany the first side of their Delusions of the Living Dead vinyl album release, accompanied by a sound installation that is designed ‘to be felt as much as heard’.
Hire and install company Brighton Sound System has overseen the installation using a selection of Traction Sound bass speakers, including the BH218 Zeus, BPS218 Hades InfraSub and BP18 Atlas. Visitors will be free to explore the gallery and move between the soundfields and ‘ordinary’ space.
Audint’s Delusions of the Living Dead for Tate Britain is part of an exploration of how sound can be used to demarcate soundscapes, and the ways in which its ‘martial and civil deployments modulate psychological, physiological and architectural states’. Based on one side of the record that accompanies the Martial Hauntology book, the animated documents Walter Slepian’s 1949 plan to purloin and photograph Jules Cotard’s notebook; a medical document that holds information pertaining to the process and methods required to seed walking corpse syndrome into a subject’s bed of cognition.
Martial Hauntology was released in late 2014 as a limited edition of 256 copies. ‘It links the underground groove of the Large Hadron Collider with the vaults of the Bank of Hell; connects the Dead Record Network with the Phantom Hailer; and traces the evolution of the Wandering Soul Tapes to the viral dynamics of the online spectreware named IREX2’. Physically, it consists of a 180g clear vinyl record, a book and six printed cards in a triple-gatefold.
