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Deja Vudu Sound Archive: Deja Vudu Sound Archive Mix 6: Chkahichdahk (Audio)
Attuning the erotics of cyberspace seems to me a demand for some sort of contact circuitry; the interface as a site of touch, the synthetic voice as a body that wants something, that calls for it through the hiss, a wet transmission. One of the beings that most drew my affection in Octavia Butler organisms was Chkahichdahk, the Oankali ship: a vast living organ, pulsing, transmitting, moving, its chimerical cells like molecules of the mother. In another frame I think of mitochondria, travelling along their own female lines. Mitochondrial DNA differs between individuals, but its mutations can be traced back to a common ancestor, a particular woman who happened to carry the particular mitochondria that found their way into every man and woman of the species. If she can be traced at all, she is already mid-line, in a sequence running back to Precambrian bacterial life and forward through vast swathes of human, organic, inorganic and newly synthesised molecular matter. This mix is a descent along that line.
Tracklist:
BIGC CODAR – HF Radar with Morse ID, WRPV745, 5262.5 kHz (14 September 2024, 0356 UTC)
Radio Alhara – Drift Conditions: Alan Watts, "You Can" (September 4)
Fabiana Gibim – Holding Hands Figuratively Speaking (Drone)
Abram Stern (aphid) – enhance-redact (cancer surveillance study #1)
Abram Stern (aphid) – numb.station, Transmission Ecologies Ep. 41 with Afroditi Psarra (Seattle, 14.12.2025)
Fabiana Gibim - Soma Ether Experiment
Transforming Surveillance Panel Discussion – with Julie Poitras Santos, Brendan McQuade, Orphan Drift (Ranu Mukherjee + Maggie Roberts), Margaret Laurena Kemp + Abram Stern, Ann Messner, and Christopher Gregory-Rivera (ICA at MECA&D, October 21, 2021)
Abysmal Other – AO_4
Cybernetic Culture Research Unit – Symbolism and the Outside
Aairria – Distance (Metastructure I, kHz004)
Rama Thiaw & dia – From Cyberfeminism to XenoFeminism: The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized (CCC Congress 35)
GIPNOZER – SOMA Enner / Zoom MS-70CDR (Dark Ambient / Dark Soundscape)
Sadie Plant – Seduced & Abandoned: The Body in the Virtual World, The Feminine Cyberspace (ICA, 1994)
SOMA Labs – The Birth of Enigma (Prototype Demo)
Vhikk Exploration
FM Mode Calling CQ from Italy, 29600 kHz (23.02.2025, 09:00 UTC)
Dark Harvestator Noise Bleep Psychogeographic Synth – Anthrax Island, Gruinard Island
Eternal Research – Chaotic Study III (Demon Box Modular Synth Improvisation)
Eternal Research – Chaotic Study I (Demon Box Modular Synth Improvisation)
Nathaniel Hess – 0.mp4
Jan Pinkava & volunteers – 67 (Ottawa International Animation Festival, 1998)
DUGA-3 – Transmitted Sound
Oblique – Sound Unfolds with Ioannis Kotsonis (Athens, 25.05.2026)
Shortwave Oddity – Ionospheric Digisonde (17 February 2024, 1504 UTC)
Radio Alhara – H121 Survival Radio Broadcast (September 7)
Sidsel Meineche Hansen & Therese Henningsen – Love Doll Resurrect (2019)
Lucy Beech – Out of Body (2025)

