I recently had the pleasure of spending an intriguing afternoon with EVP researcher and recording artist Michael Esposito at the amazing studio of the composer Aleksander Kolkowski. Regular readers of this blog may recall that Michael was responsible with Carl Michael von Hausswolff for issuing
The Ghosts of Effingham:
a set of EVP recordings inscribed onto an Edison wax cylinder which
also glowed in the dark. An enthused researcher of the machine's ability
to reproduce sound, Aleksander’s creations include
Mechanical Landscape with Bird – an extraordinary work for canaries, ‘serinette’, cylinder players and string quartet playing Stroh violins, Stroh viola and Stroh ‘Japanese Fiddle’. His work has also been featured in
The Wire.
On a visit to London from his home in Chicago, Michael had already made
an arrangement with Aleks to run an EVP recording session at the studio,
which is an Aladdin’s cave of working cylinder players, amplifying
horns for gramophones and radios, antique musical instruments, sheet
music, pictures and shelves full of books and old recordings.
Part one
Part two
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