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--
Laura is a parable of molding
information.
-- Anytime
information
reaches a certain point of saturation, anytime information cannot
be contained,
it becomes noise. (Just as "information wants to be free" so too
does
it tend toward noise, before moving onto more ethereal
realms)
-- Radio, with its romance of lost signals,
extraterrestrial
communication, and superconscious vibration is the paradigmatic
technology
of noise, even as it is also the paradigmatic technology of
noise's opposite
(command-control-communication-commerce-code-celebrity
culture).
-- Laura-- intersecting with histories of radio, voice
on film,
popular song, modernist and postmodernist storytelling, television
and
the internet-- exists in a liminal area between noise and
non-noise, repetition
and renewal, information and perception, human and machine. Yet
across
each innovation, as well as every timeless tic, there remains of
predominance
of the radiophonic.
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