A German waveform, also studied by Ella. She developed techniques which allowed her to grab the waveform in her hands, and turn it over and over, looking for imperfections, or coherent segments that betrayed its artifact-nature and thus its ultimate origin and meaning (not that she was really interested in the cultural significance of the object... she really just want to perfect her analysis techniques, which would help her in building her own unnamable machine and waveforms).     Spinning disks scanned mourners left behind by the dead, changing their pictures to sounds, which were transmitted through telephone wires.