- 077_Charged [SWORLD_E01]
- 076_Dream journeys of G.M.
- 075_Spiritual Catapult
- 074_about Sworld
- 073_“Hotdog, Art!”
- 072_Inner Cop Avoidance
- 071_Skoven / Anatomical study
- 070_play 2 / untell
- 069_Bag To Bag
- 068_Sweets 4
- 067_Sweets 3
- 066_Omnitopoeia
- 065_Sweets 2
- 064_Audience
- 063_T.O.
- 062_Variables of Uncertainty
- 061_Sweets1
- 060_Cube of coincidence
- 059_2019, utterakandh
- 058_Soothsinger
- 057_Gathering Together Swamp
- 056_Embedded Listening
- 055_Dial
- 054_Playhouse in deep time
- 053_Gennem et specielt glas
- 052_Le seul salut que je connaisse
- 051_Chimera/Homeostasis
- 050_A Limb Between Two Greens
- 049_H
- 048_Music and Neighbours of Chi’en Chien
- 047_OK A.P.
- 046_Seul Blues Palindrome
- 045_Sitting Close To A Stranger
- 044_Perfect Working Order
- 043_Songs to the Keeper
- 042_Reception Desk #1
- 041_Mind Matter
- 040_GiVa1G booklet
- 039_GiVa1G
- 038_Gedehornbillens Aftensang
- 037_Womtour
- 036_Geneves Me Sansi (Nippon version)
- 035_Home is a Warm Place and Underground
- 034_The Good Spirit of Naulikan Forest
- 033_Structure of
- 032_Classic Brussels
- 031_Skaldic Songs 4 Albereich
- 030_I forlængelse af “Det Store Spil om Hiinguldet”
- 029_Det Sidste Hyggelige Hus
- 028_Rogueheim
- 027_Notion of Movement
- 026_Heavy Fruits / Light Metals
- 025_Girmhingsten
- 024_Forbindelser til Girmhingerzonen
- 023_Former Commodity #5
- 022_Furnace
- 021_Former Commodity #4
- 020_Bergtal til Vingmal
- 019_Former Commodity #3
- 018_SV
- 017_wacka
- 016_Aufgezeignet Dudelzack Zeremonie
- 015_Redeemer
- 014_∫
- 013_Adaptive Positions
- 012_Former Commodity #2
- 011_±±±±±
- 010_World Pool
- 009_Former Commodity #1
- 008_Economy of Meaning
- 007_Fresh Back from the Festival
- 006_Table Culture
- 005_Vanitas Performance Fest
- 004_Tabloid
- 003_Astral Triade
- 002_1
- 001_Folded Earth / Double Exposure
“Hotdog, Art!”
About 10 years ago, I got involved in a ghost hunt that took place at the closed psychiatric hospital in Aarhus called Det Jydske Asyl, where we spent about four hours during one night attempting to channel messages from the spirits of the former residents. The primary method we used was to set up audio and video recorders in different rooms and see if some spirits would talk to us through the recordings. During the night in Det Jydske Asyl we did not manage to connect with any spirits, but some years later this experience led me to another discovery. I was hiking in southern Norway. For fun, I tried the ghost hunter method again and made some sound recordings of the hollows of the oak trees. To start with, there was nothing remarkable on the recordings, but then a few minutes into the recording, a scratchy voice appeared. In the emptiness of this hollow tree something seemed to speak. It was clearly not a human voice, but rather the sound of someone scrawling messages on the inside of the tree or perhaps something eating its way through the woods. This phenomenon was undoubtedly what in modern ghost hunting terms is called the Electronic Voice Phenomenon or simply EVP. In a secular context, people would likely read EVP as random noises whose cause can be explained by radio interference or faulty recording equipment. The ghost hunters don’t seem to be looking for explanations though. Rather, they are interested in leaving the cause unexplained as a source of imagination. Among the first EVP recordings were messages such as “This is G!”, “Hotdog, Art!” and “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all” Although most people in modern secular Denmark would probably refer to all this as superstitious phenomena, the modern ghost hunters are seriously engaged in their techniques of connecting with spirits. I think that their engagement represents a mystery in our society, of which there is far too little. Perhaps the purpose is not to convince people of the existence of ghosts, but rather to explore and expand understandings of the technology people surround themselves with. At ghosthunting.dk you can listen to EVP recordings made between 2008-2023 by a group of ghost hunters based in Denmark. I can recommend the group’s newest recordings, which were made in Branderup Forsmalings Hus. a gravelly voice through the radio noise that might says “It’s Torben”, “Behind you” and “Mom…. She just slipped.
AH, 2024