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Sound Pressure reveals how speaker systems mounted in public,
employment, military and entertainment environments have played a
pivotal role in the way that humans have been physiologically and
psychologically organised and disciplined throughout the past
century. The networked Wired Radio speakers of the 1920's
industrialised factory, acoustically anchor a narrative based on
the functional utilisation of sound systems for insidious purposes;
from the surround-sound techniques of the Waco siege, to the
application of sonic torture in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.
Crucially, Sound Pressure identifies the logic behind the
miniaturisation and disappearance of visible sound system
technologies as they transmute into the ultrasonic dynamics of the
Hypersonic Sound System and covert bone conduction techniques of
Whispering Windows. The book charts an evolution of speaker
technology that has been, and will be, used to influence,
manipulate and torture the collective and isolated body. It
amplifies the connections between LRADs, iPods, Mosquitos,
Intonarumori, loudhailers, and Sequential Arc Discharge Acoustic
Generators - the meta-network of speaker systems through which
rhythms and cadences of power are transmitted, connected, and
modulated.
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