A Lecture on Schizophonia
Erik Bünger, 2010, DE, video, 37'
Schizophonia [= that which makes dogs bark at speakers, children look for the man behind the box and savages demand their captured souls returned.]
A project existing both as a performance and a video piece, investigating the phenomenon of 'schizophonia '. Coined in the 1960s by Canadian composer R. Murray Schaefer, the term "schizophonia" describes the act of detaching a sound from its original context. Made possible by technical media, now an everyday procedure. In his lecture performance Erik Bünger examines elements of pop culture in the light of schizophonia, drawing parallels between dubbing and demonic possession or exorcism, for example, or describing the wave of posthumous duets in music videos as necromancy.
