Audio Theory from a Media Masseur

Ubuweb is a deeeep archive of avant art, music, speech, etc.

I spent some time today on Marshall McLuhan’s page, delighted to find his classic work (recently reissued) in audio collage form!

Side A
[audio:http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/mcluhan_marshall/Mcluhan-Marshall_The-Medium-Is-The-Massage_01.mp3]

Side B
[audio:http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/mcluhan_marshall/Mcluhan-Marshall_The-Medium-Is-The-Massage_02.mp3]

a few rndm pull quotes, some sarcastically spoken —

We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.

What’ll happen when intelligence is recognized as a global resource?

We are proud of our museums where we display a way of living that we have made impossible.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.