Linda's piece was so beautiful and haunting that I wanted to make sure the EVPs worked into it with a natural, non-challenging feel.  So I opened up her piece a bit and added some extra depth to widen the composition up a bit to absorb the natural harshness of the EVPs.  I also added some of the phrases in reverse to the overall composition to create an eerie uneasiness without losing that original ethereal appeal. I then carefully chose and placed the EVPs in a way to enhance the overall harmonic rhythm of the work. Some of the EVPs were repeated so the observer might be able to glean some of the actual utterances contained in them.

All the years I've spent in University Libraries I have always felt somehow never quite alone. (I actually fell asleep on the catwalks of the University of Notre Dame's Law Library once and spent the night with some disturbing nightmares!) So with all of the enlightened learning and such that goes on in those quiet and venerable places, I wondered if there wouldn't be some interesting attraction to our post -coil energy that might ebb there. And through my work, I found that the voices are clear, sometimes worried and insightful.

Michael Esposito/ June 2013

Case File 112 is the name given to a body of research undertaken at Purdue University Calumet Campus, Indiana.

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Haunt Of The Athenaeum Codex (2013) - Michael Esposito

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