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- Title
The Maniac-Making Machine: A Media History of Delayed Auditory Feedback.
- Authors
Marshall, Owen
- Abstract
Historians have shown how categories of unwanted sound—that is noise—have been subject to projects of technological abatement and domestication. Less has been written on how noise relates to the production of new categories of personhood. This article traces how military, medical, and scholarly speech-hearing researchers developed "delayed auditory feedback" (DAF), a disruptive and initially unwanted echo effect produced via magnetic tape recording, since the late 1940s. It argues that the emotional, spatial, and temporal ambiguities raised by DAF offered key perceptual resources for constructing modern speech-hearing science as a discipline and for reimagining the technologically mediated speaking-hearing human subject. By prying open the interval between vocalization and self-hearing, DAF afforded researchers a new domain of experimentally performable auditory subjectivity, one in which they could more readily distinguish clients from research subjects, auditory malingerers from the "organically" deaf, and cybernetic "closed-loop" from stimulus-response "open-loop" audiological models.
- Subjects
MAGNETIC tapes; INTERSTIMULUS interval; SOUNDS; CYBERNETICS
- Publication
Technology & Culture, 2021, Vol 62, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0040-165X
- Publication type
Article