What if, however, the shifting relation between the audible and the inaudible was not merely a matter of technical upgrades to the human sensorium but rather indicated a kind of policing of frequency that distributes that which is sonically sensed....what if the actual weapon was vibration itself, and its target not the operating systems of robots but the affective operating system of the citys population? This would be a scenario in which that which was being transmitted would be not just information but bad vibes. In this ecology, an event would simultaneously draw in the physics of its environment (its vibrations) and the moods of its populace (its vibes), sending an immense collective shiver through the urban as resonating surface. -- Steve Goodman in Sonic Warfare (2010, MIT Press) Of course, if you reverse these principles of control and domination into a dynamic of release and development, you have Sun Ras idea of Tone Science. And thats just what we will be offering on Tuesday, December 3rd -- Applied tone science in the form of our anti-predator drone. Ommmmmmm.
Posted on: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:05:49 +0000
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