Sonic Weapons

Tecnologías de Control Social con Sonido

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Videos sobre el “Mosquito”

By Chiu Longina • Mar 13th, 2008 • Category: MOSQUITO, VIDEO

Algunos videos en red sobre este dispositivo.

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midiGun /// weapon of beat destruction

By Chiu Longina • Mar 12th, 2008 • Category: DISPOSITIVOS, VIDEO

http://www.midigun.com/midiGunchart.htm

The “midiGun” is a novel handheld midi controller. This gun shaped interface was especially designed to remotely control real time music softwares, including Ableton LIVE, Traktor DJ

The “midiGun” simultaneously replaces the classical DJ mixer and the keyboard. Because of its practical shape and easily accessible knobs, buttons and sensors, the “midiGun” is very easy to […]



Bass in battle - infrasound and sonic weapons

By Chiu Longina • Mar 11th, 2008 • Category: AUDIO, TEXTO

http://www.museumoftechno.org/exhibition_detail.php?id=8

Literal: (from Museum of Techno)

bass in battle - infrasound and sonic weapons

there have been many spurious claims of success in the endeavour to create weapons - lethal and non-lethal - which exploit the physiological effects of infrasound bass on the human body: notably at the so-called “arsequake” frequencies between 7hz and 17hz. the author william […]



Navy Researching Vomit Beam [Wired Blog]

By Chiu Longina • Mar 11th, 2008 • Category: TEXTO

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/03/navy_researchin.html

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Last night, I found a weapon that shoots an invisible wall-penetrating beam that makes people so dizzy they fall over. (It can make them puke, too, but I’ll get to that in a moment.)

Puking_canOkay, okay… it was only a description of the device that I came across, going through my (mostly junk) mail. The less-lethal […]



An Assessment of the Effects of Four Acoustic Energy Devices on Animal Behavior

By Chiu Longina • Mar 11th, 2008 • Category: TEXTO

http://www.stormingmedia.us/20/2085/A208583.html

An Assessment of the Effects of Four Acoustic Energy Devices on Animal Behavior
Authors: Clifford F. Sherry; Michael C. Cook; G. C. Brown; James R. Jauchem; James H. Merritt; VERIDIAN CORP SAN ANTONIO TX

Abstract:
To determine if narrow-band, high-intensity acoustic energy in the audible frequency range could be used as a non-lethal weapon, four acoustic devices were […]



Lab Pushes for Sonic Blaster [Wired Blog]

By Chiu Longina • Mar 11th, 2008 • Category: TEXTO

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/12/acoustic-weapon.html

Literal: (from Wired Magazine Blog)

Lab Pushes for Sonic Blaster
By Sharon Weinberger
December 12, 2007

For all the talk of puke rays, sound weapons, blinding lasers, and pain beams, you’d think the military has an arsenal of nonlethal weapons at the ready. But they don’t, mostly because without human testing, many nonlethal effects are anecdotal (and thus possibly […]



DSLAD, the Distributed Sound and Light Array Debilitator [Wired Blog]

By Chiu Longina • Mar 11th, 2008 • Category: DISPOSITIVOS

Via: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/12/light-sound-new.html

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Light + Sound = New Weapon
By Sharon Weinberger
December 12, 2007

Sheriff Military funded researchers are preparing to test a nonlethal weapon that combines light and sound. Nicholas C. Nicholas, chief scientist of Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory, told an audience yesterday at a nonlethal weapons conference that in the first half of next year, the […]



Effect of infrasound on cochlear damage from exposure to a 4 kHz octave band of noise

By Chiu Longina • Mar 11th, 2008 • Category: TEXTO

LINK TO ORIGINAL TEXT
Published in http://www.sciencedirect.com/

Effect of infrasound on cochlear damage from exposure to a 4 kHz octave band of noise
Gary W. Harding, Barbara A. Bohnea, Steve C. Leea and Alec N. Salta
Department of Otolaryngology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States

Abstract
Infrasound (i.e.,



Acoustic Weapons (Armas Sonoras)

By Chiu Longina • Mar 11th, 2008 • Category: FOTOS

Fotografías de algunas de las Armas Acústicas que aparecen en este trabajo de campo. Las fotos fueron extraídas de algunas webs (derechos de autor de los autores).



Organ music ‘instils religious feelings’

By Chiu Longina • Mar 11th, 2008 • Category: DISPOSITIVOS, TEXTO

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3087674.stm

Literal: (from BBC)

Organ music ‘instils religious feelings’
By Jonathan Amos
BBC News Online science staff, in Salford

People who experience a sense of spirituality in church may be reacting to the extreme bass sound produced by some organ pipes.

Many churches and cathedrals have organ pipes that are so long they emit infrasound which at a frequency lower […]