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Sonic Warfare - Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Paperback)
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Sonic Warfare - Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Paperback)
Series: Sonic Warfare
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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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