The Talking Dead: Our Live Experiment with Instrumental Transcommunication

Today on a very special pre-Halloween episode of Phantom Power, we try to make contact with the dead using digital audio technology. We are trying Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC) with ITC practitioner Joshua Sean and cultural scholar Leila Taylor, who focuses on the esoteric, horror, and the occult. Join us, if you dare…. Joshua Sean is the owner and founder of Zero-G ITC, an organization dedicated to Instrumental Trans-Communication Engineering Research and Development, Theory and Design. Joshua is an audio scientist and engineer and the inventor of PRISM, an analog emulation system that utilizes quantum dynamics and chaotic light photon interactions to isolate communication anomalies. You can find his ITC livestreams at YouTube. Leila Taylor is a Brooklyn-based writer, speaker, and designer whose work focuses on the intersection of history, horror and the gothic in contemporary culture. Leila is author of Sick Houses: Haunted Homes & the Architecture of Dread and Darkly: Black History & America’s Gothic Soul. Her work has appeared in outlets like the New York Review of Architecture, Lapham’s Quarterly, and Repeater Book of the Occult. She’s given talks on the eerie and the esoteric for the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, Morbid Anatomy, The Collective for Radical Death Studies, and The Occult Humanities Conference. By day, she is Creative Director for Brooklyn Public Library. Cited Media: Books: Leigh Eric Schmidt - Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment (2000) Leila Taylor - Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread (2025) Leila Taylor - Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul (2019) Tariq Goddard & Eugene Thacker - The Repeater Book of the Occult: Tales from the Darkside (2021) Friedrich Jürgenson - Voices From Space (1964) Konstantin Raudive - Breakthrough: An Amazing Experiment in Electronic Communication with the Dead (1971) Emanuel Swedenborg - The Animal Kingdom (Regnum Animale) (1745) Audio: Konstantin Raudive - Breakthrough (1971) Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville - Au Clair de la Lune (1860) Film: Daniel Drasin - Calling Earth (2018) Chapters: 0:00 Intro 7:10 Defining ITC 15:03 Early Sound Recording 20:26 Jürgenson & Raudive 30:28 Raudive's Three Methods 33:51 The Prism System 38:29 Live ITC Demonstration 46:54 Listening & Wrap-Up Click here to read the full transcript Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices