Dracula Gramophone by Marc Porée

“…Departing from the obvious approach via a general theory of the visible (and the invisible), it focuses on the various novelistic strategies bent on recording, typing, harking (cf. Jonathan Harker) and intoning, while taking into account the means, both technological (gramophone) and supernatural (vampiric “sound bites”), whereby “negative audition” (achieved via hypnosis) and Verstimmung are enacted in the writing itself. …”
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From Trinidad to Cyberspace: Reconsidering Ernst Toch’s “Geographical Fugue” by Carmel Raz

“…Ernst Toch’s “Geographical Fugue” was conceived of as a work for technological media, designed as a recording to be ‘performed’ by gramophone set to a faster speed. …”
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