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. The second occurred as part of the Cementa Arts Festival at Kandos Museum in Kandos on February 1st – 4th 2013. 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.

How To Summon Stories

You will need an iPhone (iOS 4.3 or later) or Android smartphone (Android 2.3.3 or later), and headphones. Make sure you have the GPS location services turned on, then go to either the iPhone App Store or Google Play Store and search for spectral committee. Download the app and you are ready to take part in a summoning.