Crackle in recordings makes the time dimension audibly present

Evidence

The great sonic-theoretical contribution of the Caretaker to the discourse of hauntology was his understanding that the nostalgia mode has to do not with memories but with a memory disorder. The Caretaker’s early releases seemed to be about the honeyed appeal of a lost past: Al Bowlly’s aching croon in the Strand ballroom in prewar tearoom London, buried beneath the sound which constitutes something like the audio-correlate of hauntology itself: crackle. In veiling the past, crackle also makes the dimension of time audible. It is through this scratching of the scanner-lens that we can hear the time-wound, the chronological fracture, the expression of the sense, crucial to hauntology, that “time is out of joint”. Dyschronia. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2425

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• XREF: connects to: Crackle and surface noise can carry the spectral essence of a record — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 211