The project explores the phenomenon of schizophonia [= that which makes dogs bark at speakers, children look for the man behind the box and tribal elders demand their captured souls returned]. The invention of the telephone and the phonograph at end of the nineteenth century marks a rupture in our experience of time and space. Suddenly a voice can issue from out of nowhere, from the wrong mouth or from beyond the grave. Listening to your own voice, you experience yourself as other. This rupture fulfills a promise given by prophets and shamans since the beginning of historical time.

The project exists both as a lecture performance and as an independent video work.

The project explores the phenomenon of schizophonia [= that which makes dogs bark at speakers, children look for the man behind the box and savages demand their captured souls returned].The invention of the telephone and the phonograph at end of the nineteenth century marks a rupture in our experience of the human voice, which simultaneously fulfils a promise given by prophets and shamans since ancient times. Suddenly a voice can issue from out of nowhere, from the wrong mouth or from beyond the grave. Listening to your own voice, you experience yourself as other.

The project exists both as a lecture performance and as an independent video work.