“My own material existence I am reasonably assured of. I can imagine my friend at the other end of the line. But between us two there is an airy nowhere, inhabited by voices and nothing else[…]The vocal inhabitants of this strange region have an amazing vanishing quality[…] And sometimes…you hear the confused murmur of a hundred voices. You catch more expressions from private conversations than your nerves can transmit to the central office of your brain; and if you are imaginative, you may undergo, as I have, a feeling as if you had a hundred astral bodies that were guiltily listening at as many keyholes.”
“A Reporters Visit to the Boston Telephone Exchange”
Scientific American 1887, 106
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writers
IAN MACARTNEY is a writer who can be found online at ianmacartney.scot, but for how much longer?
JOE SUMMERS is an artist, musician and instrument maker based in Berlin
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he is co-founder of first terrace records
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his work spans performance, music, writing, radio and carpentry.
JOE VAUGHAN is a writer, publisher and artist based in Bristol, UK.
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he was the producer of Publicate Festival of Independent Publishing
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he works in performance, music, and long form fiction.