Michael Esposito is an experimental artist and researcher in

Electronic Voice Phenomena Within ghost hunting and parapsychology, electronic voice phenomena (EVP) are sounds found on electronic recordings that are interpreted as spirit voices. Parapsychologist Konstantīns Raudive, who popularized the idea in the 1970s, described EV ...

(EVP).

Biography

Michael Andrew Esposito was born in

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in 1964. He is a descendant of

Alfred Vail Alfred Lewis Vail (September 25, 1807 – January 18, 1859) was an American machinist and inventor. Along with Samuel Morse, Vail was central in developing and commercializing American electrical telegraphy between 1837 and 1844. Vail and Morse ...

who invented the

Morse Code Morse code is a telecommunications method which Character encoding, encodes Written language, text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called ''dots'' and ''dashes'', or ''dits'' and ''dahs''. Morse code i ...

and several early telegraph devices with his partner

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. The invention of the telegraph sparked the spiritualist movement of the middle 1800s and the telegraph was used in spirit communication. Another ancestor, Jonathan Harned Vail was office manager and assistant to

Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison (February11, 1847October18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, ...

. In his later years, Edison attempted to develop a device for communicating with the dead. Michael studied communication theory at Purdue University, University of Notre Dame, American University in Cairo, Egypt and Governor's State University. During the

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Michael was a Psy-ops officer in Iraq. Over the years, under the Phantom Airwaves institution, Michael has participated in hundreds of paranormal investigations all over the world. He has conducted extensive research at many active locations and has developed a great deal of unique theory and devised many unique experiments within the field of EVP. Focusing primarily on EVP research, he has collected tens of thousands EVPs and video. He has had numerous television, radio and newspaper appearances. Working extensively with EVP's relationship to experimental music, Michael combines EVP with field recording and related frequency tones of research sites. Michael is currently published by Touch (UK).

Selected discography

* Unsure (2006) * Perryville Battlefield (2007) * The Summerhouse (CD) w/

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(2007) * Fire Station 6 (CD) w/

(2008) * The Sallie House (CD) w/ F.M. Einheit (2008) * Enemy (CD) w/ Brent Gutzeit (2009) * The John Mouat Lumbermill Tests (2009) * The Old Vicarage - Gamla Prästgården (CD) w/

Carl Michael von Hausswolff Carl Michael von Hausswolff (born 1956) is a composer, visual artist, and curator based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main tools are recording devices (camera, tape deck, radar, sonar) used in an ongoing investigation of electricity, frequency, ar ...

(2009) * Der Geist Meiner Mutter (2010) * Messerschmitt (2010) * The Ghosts of Effingham (Cylinder Phonograph Record) w/

(2010) * The Icy Echoer (7") w/

Kevin Drumm Kevin Drumm (born 1970) is an experimental musician based in Chicago, United States. Biography Emerging from the city's improvised music scene, in the 1990s he became one of the world's pre-eminent prepared guitar players. Since then his work ...

(2010) * There Must Be A Way Across This River / The Abject (LP) w/ John Duncan and

Z'EV Z'EV (born Stefan Joel Weisser, February 8, 1951 – December 16, 2017) was an American poet, percussionist, and sound artist. After studying various world music traditions at CalArts, he began creating his own percussion sounds out of indu ...

(2011) * Nothing By Mouth - Old South Pittsburg Hospital Test w/ Heidi Harman (2011) * The Ghosts of Ogilvie Station (7" Flexi) w/ Per Svensson (2011) * The Ghosts of Case File 142 (CD) w/ Francisco Meirino (2012) * The Phantoms of Purgatory Souls (7" Flexi) w/ Chris Connelly (2012) * The Maladjusted Of Manteno Asylum - Artist's Multiple version (7" One Of a Kind Vinyl + Acoustic Paper Turntable + E.Book + Phantom Monograph article + handmade signed and numbered by the author) w/

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, Published by: Radical Matters - Editions / Label , 2012. * The Maladjusted Of Manteno Asylum - Sound Object version (One Side Glue Reocord + CDR + E.Book) w/

, Published by: Radical Matters - Editions / Label , 2012.

Filmography

* Dead Whisper (2006) * Paranormal Labs: Ghosts - Dead Whisper (2008) * The House (2008) * Ghost Asylum (2009) * The Sallie House - Gateway to the Paranormal (2009) * Dead Whisper: In Search of Ghosts and the Supernatural (2009)

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