Evp

[Ci Celli Ddu]

I'd be interested in hearing any thoughts and comments on EVP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voice_phenomenon).

[Naomi]

I heard a voice once, when I was a child, we were parked in front of an abandoned house and it told me to "get out of here" as I was sitting alone inside the parked car.

I bet magicians could get some great recordings during evocation.

[Oblio]

You might be interested in checking out this band - Choronzon (http://choronzon.org/).

They create kind of experimental noise industrial electronic stuff, this is part of their take on their sound:

PSIONIC EMBEDDINGS, SUB- and SUPRA-LIMINAL MESSAGES HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED / DEPLOYED on EACH and EVERY TRACK of THIS ALBUM... notably in the form of CRYPTOVOX: a sort of quasi-EVP manifestation of "words" which will have the effect of being different from one listening to another, and/or from one ear/mind to another. It is regarded as either the voice of the entity CHORONZON or as a flukey accident of technology, depending on the reality-level working ON the creators, or which reality-level the listener is IN at the time. Or both.There is plenty of music to have a listen to on the site if you explore a bit.

As they say though, some of it is obviously quasi-EVP, particularly for their album complicity simplexity (http://choronzon.org/nwc/tracklist.html), which is what the above quote was directed too - it sounds like they've got a whole bunch of audio samples, ran them through different filters, then layered them, with a background of ambient/industrial (if that even makes sense :D) synths. In that context, it's pretty easy to construct words and even sentences subconsciously - not to say it isn't a cool effect when it happens! Maybe it can be used as a scrying tool.. auditory scrying.. where you interpret the chaotic stimuli according to extra-conscious activity....

Interestingly, they create their music mainly as the background for ritual workings, which I can totally dig in some of the more ambient tracks.