THE ENORMOUS RADIO RESEARCH IMAGES
Images include: Animal defence mechanisms; Australian Wildlife Sound Recording Group (AWSRG); Acoustic Ecology diagrams decoding & tracking bee hive, elephant and sperm whale communications; documentation from Enormous Radio prototype testing; Arecibo interstellar radio message broadcast to alien civilisations (circa 1974); Dutch research into Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP); Spiritualist photography (circa 1922); Pinterest moodboard.
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Historically, humans have long used ‘new technologies’ to attempt contact with the non-human, particularly in times of grief and uncertainty. After World War I, bereaved families turned to ‘ghost photography’ to connect with their dead; Russian scientists were the first of many to transmit radio broadcasts to “extra-terrestrial civilizations”; and popularisation of tape recorders gave birth to Electronic Voice Phenomena – hidden messages discovered in audio recordings upon playback.
