Eyes Have Ears Analog Synaesthesia...
summary
Tracks a concrete claim: old Soviet audio‑video hardware and wired home radio form unintended cross‑modal channels that were repurposed for surveillance and propaganda. Shows a rebuilt instrument that demodulates analog video into sound, reuses wired radio trunks and obsolete TV bands, and stages an analog synaesthesia performance. Connects early devices — a 1926 mechanical CCTV prototype, the Termin alarm/CCTV installed in the Kremlin, and the Buran optical microphone — to mass control practices that now feed digital censorship and the ~3,000 political prisoners count.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Analog media and surveillance history
- 3:22Analog synaesthesia and Soviet tech
- 10:27Sarcasta radio station pioneers
- 17:46Zamyatin’s dystopia and surveillance
- 22:52Theremin’s dual-purpose tech
- 29:02Shukhov’s wired radio networks
- 38:28Optical sound film innovations
- 43:56Stalinist control and gulag tech
- 51:28Gulag science and progress cost
- 56:37Sakharov’s shift to human rights
- 1:01:19Post-Soviet media urban legends
- 1:06:40Digital media control in Russia
