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The Maniac-Making Machine: A Media History of Delayed Auditory Feedback
Technology and Culture
|August 23, 2021
Summary
Delayed auditory feedback (DAF), initially unwanted, became crucial for speech-hearing science. This technology helped define the modern mediated human subject and differentiate audiological conditions.
Area of Science:
- History of Science and Technology
- Auditory Science
- Human-Computer Interaction
Background:
- Noise abatement historically focused on technological solutions.
- The link between noise and personhood categories remains underexplored.
- Delayed auditory feedback (DAF) emerged as a disruptive audio effect in the late 1940s.
Purpose of the Study:
- To trace the development and impact of DAF in speech-hearing research.
- To explore how DAF contributed to defining modern speech-hearing science.
- To analyze DAF's role in redefining the technologically mediated human subject.
Main Methods:
- Historical analysis of military, medical, and scholarly research.
- Examination of the use of magnetic tape recording for DAF.
- Study of the perceptual, emotional, spatial, and temporal effects of DAF.
Main Results:
- DAF provided key perceptual resources for establishing speech-hearing science.
- The ambiguities of DAF facilitated new ways to understand auditory subjectivity.
- DAF enabled distinctions between research subjects, clients, and malingerers.
Conclusions:
- DAF created an experimental domain for auditory subjectivity.
- It influenced the development of audiological models (e.g., cybernetic closed-loop vs. open-loop).
- DAF played a significant role in shaping the concept of the technologically mediated speaking-hearing human subject.
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