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Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction) |  | Author: Steve Goodman
Publisher: The MIT Press
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0262013479
Dewey Decimal Number: 781.1
EAN: 9780262013475
ASIN: 0262013479
Publication Date: December 31, 2009
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Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambiance 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 repellents 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.
Technologies of Lived Abstraction series
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Postmodern rambling March 22, 2010
MJM (redmond, wa USA)
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
I'm gonna start off by saying I freaking love Kode9 and HyperDub. The guy just beams out incredible well designed sound. So when I heard he was coming out with a book regarding affecting with sound, I bought it expecting to have a pretty interesting philosophical read and perhaps come away with some fresh perspective. But Sonic Warfare as a meal is quickly filling and hard to digest. The whole thing is over-written like someone who was trying to make even the simplest statement horribly difficult to grasp. I can easily read several pages and still only have a whisper of an idea of wtf he's talking about. So unfortunately I can't recommend it.
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