Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of FearMIT Press, 24 aug. 2012 - 296 sidor An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality—when sound helps produce a bad vibe. Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread—to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the “psychoacoustic correction” aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in Waco by the FBI, sonic booms (or “sound bombs”) over the Gaza Strip, and high-frequency rat repellants used against teenagers in malls. At the same time, artists and musicians generate intense frequencies in the search for new aesthetic experiences and new ways of mobilizing bodies in rhythm. In Sonic Warfare, Steve Goodman explores these uses of acoustic force and how they affect populations. Traversing philosophy, science, fiction, aesthetics, and popular culture, he maps a (dis)continuum of vibrational force, encompassing police and military research into acoustic means of crowd control, the corporate deployment of sonic branding, and the intense sonic encounters of sound art and music culture. Goodman concludes with speculations on the not yet heard—the concept of unsound, which relates to both the peripheries of auditory perception and the unactualized nexus of rhythms and frequencies within audible bandwidths. |
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24001400 BC Project Jericho | 15 |
1946 Sonic Dominance | 27 |
1933 Abusing the Military Entertainment Complex | 31 |
403221 BC The Logistics of Deception | 35 |
1944 The Ghost Army | 41 |
1842 Sonic Effects | 45 |
1992 The Throbbing Crowd | 109 |
1993 Vorticist Rhythmachines | 113 |
1946 Virtual Vibrations | 117 |
2012 Artificial Acoustic Agencies | 123 |
1877 Capitalism and Schizophonia | 129 |
1976 Outbreak | 133 |
1971 The Earworm | 141 |
2025 Déjà Entendu | 149 |
1977 A Sense of the Future | 49 |
1913 The Art of War in the Art of Noise | 55 |
1989 Apocalypse Then | 59 |
1738 Bad Vibrations | 63 |
1884 Dark Precursor | 69 |
1999 Vibrational Anarchitecture | 75 |
137 Billion BC The Ontology of Vibrational Force | 81 |
1931 Rhythmanalysis | 85 |
1900 The Vibrational Nexus | 91 |
1929 Throbs of Experience | 95 |
1677 Ecology of Speeds | 99 |
9950 BC Rhythm out of Noise | 105 |
1985 Dub Virology | 155 |
1928 Contagious Orality | 163 |
2020 Planet of Drums | 171 |
2003 Contagious Transmission | 177 |
2039 Holosonic Control | 183 |
Conclusion UnsoundThe SubPoliticsof Frequency | 189 |
Glossary | 195 |
Notes | 199 |
References | 251 |
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Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear Steve Goodman Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2012 |