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

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Auteur principal: Goodman, Steve, 19.
Support: Livre
Langue: Anglais
Publié: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, cop. 2010.
Collection: Technologies of lived abstraction
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Résumé: 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. (Jaquette)
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300 |a 1 vol (xx, 270 p.) :  |b couv. ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
490 0 |a Technologies of lived abstraction 
504 |a Bibliogr. Index 
505 0 |a 1998: A conceptual event -- 2001: What is sonic warfare? -- 2400-1400 B.C.: Project Jericho -- 1946: Sonic dominance -- 1933: Abusing the military-entertainment complex -- 403-221 B.C.: The logistics of deception -- 1944: The ghost army -- 1842: Sonic effects -- 1977: A sense of the future -- 1913: The art of war in the art of noise -- 1989: Apocalypse then -- 1738: Bad vibrations -- 1884: Dark precursor -- 1999: Vibrational anarchitecture -- 13.7 billion B.C.: The ontology of vibrational force -- 1931: Rhythmanalysis -- 1900: The vibrational nexus -- 1929: Throbs of experience -- 1677: Ecology of speeds -- 99-50 B.C.: Rhythm out of noise -- 1992: The throbbing crowd -- 1993: Vorticist rhythmachines -- 1946: Virtual vibrations -- 2012: Artificial acoustic agencies -- 1877: Capitalism and schizophonia 1-- 1976: Outbreak -- 1971: The earworm -- 2025: Déjà entendu -- 1985: Dub virology -- 1928: Contagious orality -- 2020: Planet of drums -- 2003: Contagious transmission -- 2039: Holosonic control -- Conclusion. Unsound : the (sub)politics of frequency 
520 |a 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. (Jaquette) 
650 |a Acoustique musicale 
650 |a Musique  |x Philosophie et esthétique  |y 20e siècle 
650 |a Sociologie de la musique 
993 |a Livre 
994 |a BC 
995 |a 149359004 
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