ABSTRACT
The fast dance between photograph and telegraph that balanced extension across time and space in the 1830s created a new imbalance or bias towards the visual, which itself had already been greatly augmented by the printing press and the alphabet before it. Indeed, subsequent to the emergence/invention of speech, every medium through the photograph and telegraph operated in the realm of sight. Photography was revolutionary in being the most literal, and the telegraph was a radical departure in its instantaneity across huge distances and triple level of abstraction away from the given world. But both were more of the same as far as the optical system they played to; and both accordingly set out a call, long overdue, for reciprocity for the acoustic realm.
