Sonic warfare : sound, affect, and the ecology of fear

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Label

Sonic warfare : sound, affect, and the ecology of fear

Title remainder

sound, affect, and the ecology of fear

Statement of responsibility

Steve Goodman

Creator

• Goodman, Steve

Subject

• COMPUTER SCIENCE/Computer Music
• DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/General
• Music -- Acoustics and physics
• Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
• Music -- Social aspects
• SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General

Language

eng

Summary

"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." "Most theoretical discussions of sound and music cultures in relationship to power, Goodman argues, have a missing dimension: the politics of frequency. Goodman supplies this by drawing a speculative diagram of sonic forces, investigating the deployment of sound systems in the modulation of affect. 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."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• Technologies of lived abstraction
• Temporary Access

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

781/.1

Index

index present

LC call number

ML3805

LC item number

.G66 2010

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Technologies of lived abstraction