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GREGORY WHITEHEAD
inventor of the "wound diddler," and noted vulnerologist.
Past director of the Broca Memorial Institute for Schizophonic
Behavior and the Institute for Screamscape Studies. Producer of
radio voice works, experimental documentaries and conceptual talk
shows, inlcluding Lovely Ways to Burn, Pressures of
the Unspeakable, and Shake, Rattle and Roll. Writer
and director of numerous memory plays for the Forensic Theatre.
Co-editor of Wireless Imagination: sound, radio and the avant-garde
(MIT Press, 1992).
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Principia Schizophonica
Instead of engaging in the belabored search for an immaculately
clean tongue (through vocal improvisation and/or the application
of signal processing hardware), I prefer to concentrate on a more
basic research: deciphering the coded syntax of the disembody,
the twisted revelations of the electro-magnetized decapitation.
Once vocal material is phonographically severed from the speaking
subject, anything is possible: but almost nothing is understood.
For this reason, I propose a series of "lecture-demonstrations"
investigating the fundamental properties of the schizophonic transmission.
The first lecture (included in this collection) simply opens the
discussion; future subjects may include reflections on the uncanny
phenomena of the lip-sync and the overdub, and an in-depth analysis
of digital speech.
--Gregory Whitehead, April 19, 1989
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