AtDTDA: (8) 229 Auxetophone

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Is there a word for a "Mancy" of records? Today, going to a 
newly opened "Rasputin's in Jeshimon, here, brought back 
the following, in the following order.

Found a copy of Oak, Ash and Thorn's "Out on a Limb" on 
Tosspot records, featuring "To Anacreon in Heav'n", the 
original lyrics for the song that devolved into "The Star 
Spangled Banner". Nina Hagen's "Sternenmadchen", 
featuring a kick-ass version of "Hit Me With Your Rhythm 
Stick" and, finally, "The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal 
Rounders". Like an all-trumps celtic cross. . . .

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> On 5/9/07, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > But above all, I'm thinking of a device intending to capture some part of the
> > soul ...
> 
> Cf., e.g. ...
> 
> From Charles Grivel, "The Phonograph's Horned Mouth" Wireless
> Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde, ed. Douglas Kahn and
> Gregory Whitehead (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992), pp. 31-61 ...
> 
> "... this machine bears a paradox: it identifies a voice, fixes the
> deceased (or mortal) person, registers the dead and thus perpetuates
> his living testimony, but also achieves his automatic reproduction in
> abstentia: my self would live without me–horror of horrors!"
> 
> http://www.hauntedink.com/ghost/ch1.html
> 
> http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=3548&ttype=2
> 
> And from Evan Eisenberg, The Recording Angel: Music, Records and
> Culture from Aristotle to Zappa (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987), Ch. 4,
> "Ceremonies of a solitary," pp. 35-56 ...
> 
> "In primitive magic the spirits whose powers are enlisted are nature
> spirits or the spirits of the dead. There is an echo of this in
> phonographic magic, lending it a certain eerieness.  Record listening
> is a seance in which we get to choose our ghosts.  The voices we hear
> come from another world .... The performer becomes (in the
> etymological sense) occult." (p. 46)
> 
> http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300099045
> 
> And recall as well, e.g., ...
> 
> http://www.danbbs.dk/~erikoest/nipper.htm