For as long as recording and communications technologies have existed, the potential of the vibrational continuum that connects sound to infrasound, ultrasound and other inaudible frequencies has been evoked to access anomalous zones of transmission between the realms of the living and the dead.

For the past ten years the AUDINT group has been researching these peripheries of sonic perception (unsound) and the portals they open to new dimensions, activating a continual intersection between fiction and fact, and pressuring thought to become something other than what it has been. The 64 short essays in this volume probe how unsound serves to activate the undead.

Contributors from a variety of disciplines chart these warped zones, mapping out a zigzagging timeline stretching from the 8th century BC (the song of the Sirens), to 2013 (acoustic levitation), and speculatively extending into 2057 (the emergence of holographic and holosonic phenomena). Look at the contents below and be impressed…

Table of Contents:

• Intra-AUDINT Email Communication—IREX2 to the Editors
• Declassified Report to IIRIS: Excerpts from Report on The Research Unit – AUDINT
• Introduction: From Martial Hauntology to Xenosonics – AUDINT
• SOMA: New Anatomies and Bodies in Vibration
• The Bodily Sounds of the Abyss – Olga Goriunova
• The Ear Phonautograph – Jonathan Sterne
• The Music of Skulls I: Bone-Instruments – Al Cameron
• Peripheral Vibrations – Shelley Trower
• Touching Nothing – Steve Goodman
• The Cat Telephone – Jonathan Sterne
• The Pineal Ear – Brooker Buckingham
• DRNE Cartography – Steve Goodman
• VOX: Voices and Vocaloids
• Screaming – Matthew Fuller
• The Missing 19dB – Lawrence Abu Hamdan
• Machine Sirens and Vocal Intelligence – Luciana Parisi
• Falling – Eleni Ikoniadou
• Glossolalia / Xenoglossia – Agnès Gayraud
• Libraries of Voices – Shelley Trower
• The Hypersonic Sound System – Toby Heys
• The Lament – Eleni Ikoniadou
• UVO: Unidentified Vibratory Objects
• The Jodhpur Boom – Paul Purgas
• The Bloop – S. Ayesha Hameed
• Sound of the Abyss – Eugene Thacker
• The Hum – Kristen Gallerneaux
• Alligators of Your Mind – Dave Tompkins
• Resonance – Erik Davis
• Dossier 37: Unidentified Vibrational Objects on the Plane of Unbelief – Steve Goodman
• The Auditory Hallucination – The Occulture
• SIG: Cover Signals, Intercepts, and Outside Broadcasts
• The Max Headroom Signal Intrusion – Kristen Gallerneaux
• Keep Me In The Loop – Dave Tompkins
• The Music of Skulls II: Osteography – Al Cameron
• Backmasking – Toby Heys
• China and the Wireless Wave – Anna Greenspan
• 2014: The Visual Microphone – Lendl Barcelos
• The Thing – Amy Ireland
• Large Hadron Collider: The Ultimate Underground Groove – Toby Heys
• RWD: Returns, Repeats, and Loops
• Duppy Conquerors, Rolling Calves, and Flights to Zion – Julian Henriques
• Days of Wrath – Eugene Thacker
• Revival – Agnès Gayraud
• Holojax – Toby Heys
• Digital Immortality – Julian Henriques
• Death by Euro – Steve Goodman
• Ancient to the Future – Steven Shaviro
• Rapparitions – Toby Heys
• XFD: Passage, Transfer, Limbo
• The Solitary Practice of the Vanishing Concert Pianist – Tim Hecker
• Ghost in the Machine – Lisa Blanning
• A Brief Defence of New Age Audio – Erik Davis
• Purgatory – Nicola Masciandaro
• VR of Void
• Delusions of the Living Dead – Toby Heys
• Jupiter – S. Ayesha Hameed
• Sonic Spectralities – Charlie Blake
• KODE: Invocations, Call Signs, and Xenopoetics
• Blood and Fire – Anthony Nine
• Archaeoacoustics – Paul Purgas
• Nimiia Vibié Log – Jenna Sutela
• The Baton of Diabolus – Georgina Rochefort
• Nurlu – Amy Ireland
• They Echoic: Exquisite Corpse – Lee Gamble
• The Sonic Egregor The Occulture
• Sorrow – Nicola Masciandaro
• D+P: Sonic Disciplines and Punitive Waveforms
• A Sonic Autopsy of the Waco Siege – Toby Heys
• Ghost Army – Steve Goodman Toby Heys Eleni Ikoniadou
• Shocks on the Body – Tim Hecker
• Wandering Soul/Ghost Tape No. 10 – Steve Goodman Toby Heys Eleni Ikoniadou
• ‘We Are the Gods Trapped in Cocoons’ – Kodwo Eshun
• Muzak and the Working Dead – Toby Heys
• The Animal Whose Ear It Is – Ramona Naddaff
• Pain ©Amp Economics – Toby Heys
• Contributors
  Index

Paperback, published in 2019, 312 pages