Phonoccultural Studies by fabrykaabd

Theodor Reik’s theory of psychoanalytic listening and his 1953 study of obsessional musical fragments (The Haunting Melody) later confirmed AUDiNT’s intuition regarding the earworm as a transitional entity able to bridge the gap separating the human from “other forms of vibratory intelligence,” though the phonovermiculi in question here were more akin to tinnital tones than conventional pop hooks, resulting from the uncanny collision between the covert back-masked message and the overt narrative refrain (or, the unconscious clashing with the conscious). Once lodged, the earworm as “artificial waveformed intelligence” burrows in search of ancient sonic memories deeply embedded in the “cultural DNA” of the host which, when located, activate the “third ear,” a “phantom sense” hereafter granting access to past, present and future “voices.”

Marc Couroux, Internal: AUDiNT (Phonoccultural Studies), 2015