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In real life the walls may have ears, but in the Stone Tape they have mouths too. Spooky - can a sound painfully listen to itself sounding? JILL: Could there be anything there that knows? Of there being nothing left of you but - just enough - to repeat the worst moment of your life over and over again!īROCK: Look, love, we talked about it. JILL (with difficulty): It’s - the thought of it.

However, it suggests some more curious sonic notions. polc shelf, bolt shop, kulcs key, vlach id, nyelv tongue. The DVD commentary suggests Kneale was aware of the parapsychology of haunted spaces, but he didn’t mention Richard Woodbridge’s ideas. notion Sonority Hierarchy (in the sense of Jespersen 1897-99) has any validity. Written by Nigel Kneale, creator of Quatermass and the Pit, it’s a wonderful piece of speculative fiction. The Stone Tape is a 1972 BBC drama about a team of audio scientists who, whilst researching a new recording technology, discover old stones that seem to contain the sound of past traumas.

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common mode of decoration-incise a seemingly infinite series of rings…” Good that was exactly what he had said he sought. The jug had been incised with a precise point. In the center of each delicate line was a fine hint of blue. so fine the eye could scarcely make it out. When he peered closer he could see the smooth finish was an illusion. Lights rippled on the staging boardīrooks stooped forward. “Southern England.’ Hart was logging instructions into the computer terminal nearby.

mostly to break the silence that lay between them. obviously moulded on by a lesser artisan. It looked unremarkable to Brooks-just a dark red oxidized finish, a thick lip, and a rather crude handle. A carefully arranged family of absorbers isolated the table from everything but the variable motor seated beneath it. Finely buffered against the slightest tremor from external sources. Hart called it a potter’s wheel but it was a turntable. deep down in my dealers stockroom they dragged out a sonority design roller shelf.2 layers of phenolic resin separated by ball bearings and cones. “Brooks walked around the spindle fixed at the center of a horizontal disk. I am absolutely fascinated by isolation products and have black ravioli, stillpoints, quasar points, springs, and other goodies. This book is winging it’s way to Soundfjord from Ebay as I write: