The Spectral Committee is a collective of writers, voice artists and technologists that was formed to transport the art of ghost storytelling – in its many and varied manifestations – into the etheric realm of mobile telephony; using the clock and GPS on smartphones to summon up audio pieces “from the other side”.

The first mass summoning of stories from the telephonic ether occurred as part Performance Space’s Nighttime: Twilight performance/installation event at Camperdown Cemetery on the evening of September 15th 2012. Others will follow…

The tales that are summoned at each event may be scary or poignant or lyrical; they may relate directly to that location, or may take the listener to places far from it. But they will remain ephemeral and site-specific: only to be experienced in a location at a specific time in the private space created by one’s headphones and mobile device.

STOP PRESS: A second summoning has been announced. It will be at a museum in the Kandos as part of the Cementa Arts Festival in February 2013.