The Animals Were Never Alone
a Choose Your Own Adventure Essay
by Maria Lepistö and the Animal Sound Society
Günter Tembrock and Andy Warhol Both Günter Tembrock and Andy Warhol worked hard, but without progress. The recordings they left us evoke an impression that time stands still; that the future overlaps with the present. Typical of the genre of Queer futurism, they break the promise of the succeeding moment as a form of transformation and relief. Time piles up; it does not simply disappear.

Tembrock Günter was a pioneer in the field of Bio acoustics. With his fox-protocols, Günter introduced the aspect of passing time into the laboratory space – but since he archived them, all this time exists simultaneously. “What I liked,” said Andy Warhol, “was chunks of time altogether”. After Tembrock’s death, the Archive keeps growing, but there is no direction. There is no end.

If you empathize with their unproductivity, go to 29

If you want to discuss the foundation of The Animal Sound Archive with Karl, go to 94

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