Online Talk · The Stone Tape Theory and the Sonic Uncanny with Author Leila Taylor
Monday, April 7, 2025
7pm ET (NYC Time)
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The recorded voice is inherently spectral, the disembodied trace of a person detached from time and space and the evidence of the departed are usually auditory. So how do you capture the voices of the dead, how do you make permanent and physical something that is by nature incorporeal? What do ghosts sound like? From a haunted electronics lab in a 1972 BBC made for tv movie to the Gold Room at The Overlook Hotel; from a 19th century theory of “place memory” to Discovery channel ghost hunters, this talk, by Leila Taylor—author of Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread—explores the spectral sonic and our desire to document the voices of the dead.
Leila Taylor is a Brooklyn-based writer, speaker, and designer whose work focuses on the intersection of history and horror and the gothic in contemporary culture. Author of Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread and Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul, her essays have appeared in Us: The Complete Annotated Screenplay, The Repeater Book of the Occult, The New Urban Gothic: Global Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene, and the graphic novel Bitter Root.
Monday, April 7, 2025
7pm ET (NYC Time)
PLEASE NOTE: A link to a recording of this talk will be sent out to ticket holders after its conclusion. It will also be archived for our Patreon members. Become a Member HERE.
Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out two hours before the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email hello@morbidanayomy.org . A temporary streaming link will be emailed after the event concludes.
The recorded voice is inherently spectral, the disembodied trace of a person detached from time and space and the evidence of the departed are usually auditory. So how do you capture the voices of the dead, how do you make permanent and physical something that is by nature incorporeal? What do ghosts sound like? From a haunted electronics lab in a 1972 BBC made for tv movie to the Gold Room at The Overlook Hotel; from a 19th century theory of “place memory” to Discovery channel ghost hunters, this talk, by Leila Taylor—author of Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread—explores the spectral sonic and our desire to document the voices of the dead.
Leila Taylor is a Brooklyn-based writer, speaker, and designer whose work focuses on the intersection of history and horror and the gothic in contemporary culture. Author of Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread and Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul, her essays have appeared in Us: The Complete Annotated Screenplay, The Repeater Book of the Occult, The New Urban Gothic: Global Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene, and the graphic novel Bitter Root.
Monday, April 7, 2025
7pm ET (NYC Time)
PLEASE NOTE: A link to a recording of this talk will be sent out to ticket holders after its conclusion. It will also be archived for our Patreon members. Become a Member HERE.
Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out two hours before the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email hello@morbidanayomy.org . A temporary streaming link will be emailed after the event concludes.
The recorded voice is inherently spectral, the disembodied trace of a person detached from time and space and the evidence of the departed are usually auditory. So how do you capture the voices of the dead, how do you make permanent and physical something that is by nature incorporeal? What do ghosts sound like? From a haunted electronics lab in a 1972 BBC made for tv movie to the Gold Room at The Overlook Hotel; from a 19th century theory of “place memory” to Discovery channel ghost hunters, this talk, by Leila Taylor—author of Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread—explores the spectral sonic and our desire to document the voices of the dead.
Leila Taylor is a Brooklyn-based writer, speaker, and designer whose work focuses on the intersection of history and horror and the gothic in contemporary culture. Author of Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread and Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul, her essays have appeared in Us: The Complete Annotated Screenplay, The Repeater Book of the Occult, The New Urban Gothic: Global Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene, and the graphic novel Bitter Root.