uncanny resonance / das Unheimliche
I experienced something quite uncanny today. When testing a transmission - of sounds of walking & drawing - the audio that came through the radio didn’t sound like the original recording at all. Rather, it eerily resembles the audio cassette a friend let me borrow that is of womb sounds - the purpose of which is to soothe the newborn to sleep with this familiar sonic environment.
Here are 3 tracks to compare:
01 an excerpt of the original audio track that I was broadcasting
02 an excerpt of what actually came through the radio
03 an excerpt of a digitized version of the cassette tape of womb sounds
Is this what resonance sounds like? Did I find myself back in the womb, though now immaterial? Freud discusses intrauterine phantasy as one of the triggers of the Uncanny (das Unheimliche) -- is this what just happened to me??














