Lilith Before Eve - Jonathan Bowden [REMASTERED AUDIO]
The original audio of this lecture was uploaded by Jez Turner and the London Forum on a now defunct YouTube channel. Thank you to @jonathanbowdenarchive for reuploading the original audio to YouTube. The audio used for this remaster was taken from the Jonathan Bowden Archive site. Any video recording of the talk that may have been taken is now since lost.
This talk was given by Jonathan Bowden on the 24th of September, 2011 at the London Forum.
This is my personal favorite lecture given by Bowden. It captures his uniqueness found in most of his speeches. Bowden goes from niche tidbit to niche writer he had read to niche story that he could have very just made up on the spot seamlessly, like a shaman that has just taken a dose of haoma.
Bowden's lectures were recorded before a time where everyone had high quality audiovisual recording devices in their pocket, which only compound the usually lacking soundstage in which he delivered them. With modern audio processing, even a layman such as myself can remove much of the artifacts present in these recordings.
AI models were used to reduce the sound of the crowd, the reverb, the echo, and the noise of the original recording. Manually EQing has helped immensely in making the audio sound less like it was taken underwater. I used a section of an edit made of Bowden as the video, though it is far from a good substitution for a video of the actual talk.
Lilith Before Eve is also the title of a play written by Bowden, a retelling of Punch & Judy with a more violent dynamic, concerning a ventriloquist who loses control of his dummy.