Rorschach Audio Index

The following represents the draft index for the first chapter of the “Rorschach Audio” book, the remaining chapters will be added as soon as possible…

Afterlife, 11
Air molecule, 38
Air traffic control, 21
Alcohol, 46
Amateur radio – see Ham radio
Ambient sound, 21
Amplification, 38
Amputee, Amputation, 18
Angel, 30
Animal cry, 36
Anosmia – see Smell
Anthropological interest, 11
Anti-fascism, 22, 47, 56
Antony & Cleopatra, 9
Architectural acoustics, 28
Arons, Barry, 21
Art & Illusion, vi, 51-54
Art criticism, 11, 53, 54
Art theory – see Critical theory
Assigned to Listen, 23, 25, 32, 50
Astronomy, 37
Asylum seeker – see Refugee
ATC – see Air traffic control
Audio art – see Sound art
Audio loop, 33
Audio oscillator, 39
Audio Rorschach, 49
Audiology, 27
Aumale, Duc D’, 23
Australia, 30
Ayer, AJ (Freddie), 56-57, 59

Babel, 21, 22
Baby alarm, 39
Barea, Arturo, 52
Battle management systems, 21
BBC Monitoring Service, vi, 23-24, 26, 29, 49, 51
Belief system, 11
Bell, 9, 37, 52
Bereavement, 59
Beveridge, W. Ian, 57
Birdsong, 11, 39
Blind-spot, 37
Blindness, 18
Blink, 37
Blue Danube, The, 32
Bombe (correct spelling!), 49
Brain – see Mind
Breakthrough, 11, 13-14, 20, 41
Bredon Wing, 23
Bregman, Albert, 34-35
Brownian motion, 38
Bruce, David, 32, 48
Bruckner, Anton, 51
Bugging device, 39
Bunker, 23

Cabinet Office, The, 24
Cacophony, 21, 29
Calder, Simon, 23
California, University of, 29
Cambridge, University of, 57
Camera obscura, 45
Camouflage, 43
Car horn, 37
Card sharp, 41
Carlson, Shawn, 29
Carmen, 32
Cass, Raymond, 31, 39, 40
Cave, 24
Caversham, 23
CB radio, 39
Chemical History of the Candle, The, v
Cherry, Colin, 21
Childhood, 45
Churchill, Winston, 14, 51
Cinema sound design, 37
Clash, The, 52
Clock, 33
Clouds, 9, 25
Coaxial cable, 39
Cobblestones, 38
Cocktail Party Effect, 21
Cocteau, Jean 47
Code (military), 22-23, 47, 49
Colour, 20, 46
Compact disc, 10, 13, 41
Computer, 10, 33, 39
Conjuring – see Stage magic
Consciousness, 44
Context, 26, 35
Conversation, 21, 27
Creativity, vi, 53, 55
Critical theory, 12, 51, 58
Crosby, Bing, 42

Dalí, Salvador, 46-47
Deafness, 17
Deafness, 17, 27-28, 37, 38
Deutsch, Diana, 29-31, 34, 52
Developmental psychology, 20
Dialogue, 37
Dictation machine – see Ediphone transcriber
Disbelief, 15-16
Disinformation, 23
Djerassi, Carl, 58
Double vision, 46
Downing Street – see Churchill, Winston
Drawing, 53
Drum, 37

Ear, 17, 22, 38, 58
Ears of Britain, The – see BBC Monitoring Service
Earth connection, 39
Ediphone transcriber, 24
Edison, Thomas, 10
Electric current, 49
Electromagnetic shielding, 39
Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP), v, 10-14, 16, 23, 29-34, 38-41, 46, 48, 51-52, 54, 57, 59
Emergency broadcast centre, 23
Enigma (codes), 49-50
Environmental science, 36
Evidence, 10, 13, 21
Evolutionary biology, 20, 36
EVP – see Electronic Voice Phenomena
Eye music, 17
Eye, 20, 22, 45, 58

Face-reading – see Lip-reading
Forgery, 15-16
Faraday cage, 39
Faraday, Michael, v
Feedback, 39, 48-49
Foreign Office, The, 24
Forest, 36
Fortean Times, 48
Fountains, 39
Fowler, Nadia, 14-15
Franco, Francisco, 52
Futurism, 14

Genet, Jean, 49
Gestalt psychology, 25
Ghost limb, 18
Ghost Orchid, The, 10, 13, 41, 51
Ghost, 10, 14, 30, 40
Gibson, JJ – see Gibsonian psychology
Gibsonian psychology, 36
Glamorous assistant, 41
Gleitman, Henry, 30
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 54, 59
Gombrich, EH (Ernst) v, vi, 25-26, 33, 51-54, 56, 58
Grammar, 40
Gregory, Richard, 45, 58-59
Guardian, The, 38

Hair cell, 38
Halftone (reprographics), 28
Ham radio, 38
Handel, Michael, 29
Hausswolff, Carl Michael von, 57
Haydn, Joseph, 34
Head of a Woman in the Form of a Battle, 46
Hearing, vi, 20, 27, 44
Heinzerling, Jürgen, 48
Helmholtz, Hermann, 45, 58
Heterodyne, 22
Hitler, Adolf, 46-47, 51
Hodges, Andrew, 50
Honegger, Arthur, 33
Hope, Charles, 51
Hypothesis, 11, 16, 26-27, 40, 47, 49-50, 56-57, 59

Illusion, v, vi, 18, 26, 30, 31, 34-35, 44, 47, 50, 56
In-car entertainment, 39
Industrial chemist, 22
Inference, 45
Information theory, 54
Information, 17, 19, 21, 27-28, 35
Intercom, 39
Interpolation, 35-37
Ionospheric propagation, 23
Iverson, John, 33

Jürgenson, Friedrich, 10, 46, 57
Kulcsar, Ilse, 52
L’Acoustique, 37
La Llama, 52
Laboratory, 22
Language, 17, 19-20, 22, 24, 29, 39-40, 56
Law of closure, 37
Leonardo da Vinci, 26, 52
Levi, Primo, 22
Lip-reading, 18-21
London Bells, 9, 53
Louis-Phillipe, King, 23

Maastricht, University of, 41
MacDonald, John, 18
Magnetic field, 33
Magnetic resonance imaging, 33
Magnetic tape – see Tape recorder
Maquis – see Anti-fascism
Marconi, Gugliemo, 10
Mathematics, 37, 54
Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 14
McGurk Effect, The, 18-21
McGurk, Harry, 18
Medicine, 27, 43
Memory, 18-20, 32, 44-45
Merckelbach, Harald, 41-42
Metamorphosis of Hitler’s Face into a Moonlit Landscape, 46
Metaphysical statement, 56
Microphone, 10-11, 14, 38-39
Military intelligence, 24-25, 29, 56
Military strategy, 41
Miller, George, 32
Mind, 17, 19-20, 29, 37, 40, 45
Ministry of Defence, The, 24
Mirror, 18
Misdirection – see Prompting
Mishearing – see Hearing
MIT Media Lab, The, 21
Mobile phone, 26, 39
MOD – see Ministry of Defence
Morse code, 22
Motion, 17
Mouth-reading – see Lip-reading
MRI – see Magnetic resonance imaging
Music, 11, 15

Naeser and Lilly, 31
Narration – see Prompting
National Grid, 34
Native tongue, 19
Nazism, 4
Neologism, 40
Neurology, 18, 58
Newspaper, 28
Ninio, Jacques, 30, 37, 47
Noise, 14, 25, 32-35, 37, 39
Northampton School for the Deaf, The, 17
Nose – see Smell
Nuclear war, 23

Orphée, 47, 56
Ortega Y Gasset, José, 14

Pacific 231, 33
Painting, 25-26, 46, 52-53
Paracousis, 37
Paradox, 22, 44
Paranoiac Visage – The Postcard Transformed, 46
Partisan, 22
Pattern recognition, 43
Perception, vi, 12-13, 17-18, 20-22, 26, 28-29, 31, 35, 42-44, 58
Perceptual hypotheses, 46
Periodic Table, The, 22
Petrautzki, Margarete, 14
Phantasmal voices, 17-18
Phantom – see Ghost
Phantom limb – see Ghost limb
Philosophy of science, vi, 49-50
Phoneme, 36
Photo reconnaissance, 25
Photograph, 28
Physiology, 21-22, 28
Picket Fence Effect, 34
Pickpocket, 41
Pilot, 21
Pinhole camera, 45
Play, 45
Poetry, 14, 17, 54
Poltergeist – see Ghost
Polyglot, 24, 40
Pope Paul VI, 11
Pope Pius XII, 10
Popper, Karl, 49-50, 54, 56, 58
Portrait of my Dead Brother, 46
Predictive texting, 26
Projection (psychological), 18-19, 25-26, 30-33, 39, 43-44, 51
Prompting, 32-33, 40-42
Proof-reading, 43
Propaganda, 14, 23
Psychoacoustics, vi
Psychology of perception – see Perception
Public Address system, 39
Pythagorean monochord, 50

Radau, Rodolphe, 37
Radio & Microphone Contact with the Dead – see Radio och Mikrofonkontakt med de Döda
Radio chatter, 21
Radio interference, 14, 39
Radio och Mikrofonkontakt med de Döda, 11
Radio static, 33, 35, 39
Radio, 10-11, 21-22, 38-39
Rain, 39
Ramachandran, Vilayanur, 18
Raudive, Konstantin, 11, 13-14, 41, 46
Reading, 43
Reality, 35, 44, 58
Recollection – see Memory
Refugee, 24
Remez, Robert, 25
Renier, Olive, 23-24, 51
Repeating Word Effect, 31
Resistance (French) – see Anti-fascism
Restaurant, 28
Retinal inversion, 45
Rorschach Audio, v, vi, 10, 16, 21, 56, 58
Rorschach ink-blot test, vi, 30, 49
Rorschach, Hermann, 30
Rösterna Från Rymden, 11
Royal Institution, The, 58
Rubinstein, Vladimir, 23-24, 51

Saccade, 43 – see also Eye
Sacks, Oliver, 17-18, 33
San Diego, 29
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 49
Science, vi
Scientific American, The, 29
Scientific methodology, vi, 49-50, 54-56
Sculpture, 53
Séance, 40
Seeing Voices, 17
Sensation – see Sense-data
Sense-data, 19, 22, 27
Sentence, 22, 27-28, 35-36, 43
Shakespeare, William, 9
Shannon, Claude, 54
Signal-to-noise ratio, 16
Silence, 18, 34, 36
Sine-wave, 25
Skinner, BF, 31, 47, 48
Smell, 18, 22
Smoke, 30
Smythe, Michael, 14
Some Axioms, Musings & Hints on Hearing, v, 25, 51
Sonnenschein, David, 37
Sound art, 11, 12, 15, 36, 50, 51
Sound quality, 16
Soundtrack, 19, 37
South Africa, 17
Space, 11
Speech Synthesis, 31, 32
Speech, 20, 25-26, 34-36
Spirit – see Ghost
Spiritualism, v, vi, 10-11, 40
Sprechfunk Mit Verstorbenen, 11
Stage Magic, 41
Stochastic resonance, 38
Stray signal, 39
Stress, 28
Supernatural, 15
Surf, 39
Surrealism, 47
Switzerland, 30
Syllable, 29, 37 – see also McGurk Effect
Synaesthesia, 20
Systematic listening, 23

Tape recorder, tape recording, 10, 15, 21, 24, 33-37, 39, 40, 47
Taps (water), 39
Taste, 20, 22, 44
Technology, vi, 36, 55
Television, 38
Tinted spectacles, 46
Titchener, Edward, 30
Tongue – see Taste
Touch, 44, 53
Train, 25, 32, 33
Translation, translator, 24
Treatise on Physiological Optics, 45
Tree, 17
Troglodyte, 24
Turing, Alan, 49, 50
Turner Prize, 58

UFO – see Unidentified Flying Object
Unexplained, The, 13
Unidentified Flying Object, 48, 57

Vatican, The, 11
Ven, Vincent van de, 41, 42
Ventriloquism, 41
Verbal satiation, 30
Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio, 38, 39
Video, 10, 18, 19, 20
Vienna, University of, 38
Vinyl record, 13, 33
Vision, 19, 20, 21, 43, 45, 46
Voices from Space, The – see Rösterna Från Rymden
Voice Transmissions With The Deceased – see Sprechfunk Mit Verstorbenen

Wagner, Richard, 51
Waltz, 33 – see also Blue Danube
Warren, RM and RP, 36
Wax cylinder recorder – see Ediphone transcriber
Westminster, University of, vi
White Christmas, 42
White noise, 34-35, 39, 42
Whittington, Dick (Richard), 53
Wildlife recording, 39
Wind, 17, 39
Wood Norton Hall, 23
Word, 19, 30, 36-37, 40
World War 2, vi, 22-24, 47, 51
Wright, David, 17-18

Z’ev, Saul, 31