Sonic Weapons

Tecnologías de Control Social con Sonido

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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

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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 […]



Radio NPR: For a Non-Lethal Weapon, Israel Uses Sound

By Chiu Longina • Mar 8th, 2008 • Category: AUDIO, DISPOSITIVOS

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4701588

For a Non-Lethal Weapon, Israel Uses Sound
by Melissa Block

All Things Considered, June 13, 2005 ·

Two weeks ago, the Israeli Army used a new weapon dubbed “The Scream” to disperse a demonstration in the West Bank. It’s a non-lethal weapon that sends out bursts of sound.

Malcolm Davies studies non-lethal weapons at the British Joint Services Command […]



Radio: Focused Sound ‘Laser’ for Crowd Control

By Chiu Longina • Mar 8th, 2008 • Category: AUDIO, DISPOSITIVOS

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4857417

Focused Sound ‘Laser’ for Crowd Control
By Xeni Jardin
Day to Day, September 21, 2005

Crowd control is a constant challenge to law enforcement — how to stop potential troublemakers without endangering those who are simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Rubber bullets can kill, tear gas drifts with the wind.

Several police departments across America […]



Henrik Rylander y su “Public Loudspeakers”

By Chiu Longina • Mar 4th, 2008 • Category: AUDIO, DISPOSITIVOS

Vía: mediateletipos.net

Henrik Rylander, fotógrafo y músico saca a la venta Public Loudspeakers. El libro/disco recoge una serie de fotografías de altavoces y una pieza de 60 minutos (aprox) a partir de la grabación de los aparatos. Esta obra centrada en el panopticismo auditivo, recoge desde su título (Information/desinformation) los principios básicos de este sistema: vigilancia […]



Los sonidos del infierno

By Chiu Longina • Mar 4th, 2008 • Category: AUDIO

José Luis Espejo, historiador e investigador, miembro del equipo de Mediateletipos.net, interesado en el Control Social con sonido plantéa una pregunta que abre un debate, ciertamente, interesante. Su pregunta ¿cuál es el verdadero sonido del infierno?

El debate que está abriendo tiene que ver con la utilización que la Iglesia Católica (y los Evangelios) han hecho […]



Mattin, Proletarian of Noise

By Chiu Longina • Mar 2nd, 2008 • Category: AUDIO

Mattin publicó un disco titulado Proletarian of noise, con el polémico y habitual caracter político presente en sus actividades. Además de las piezas sonoras, el trabajo se completa con otra parte textual que es algo así como un repaso conceptual de su visión del ruido… el elemento de trabajo de este activista sonoro.

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LESS-LETHAL, vol. 1. Alku 63. VVAA

By Chiu Longina • Mar 2nd, 2008 • Category: AUDIO

http://personal.ilimit.es/principio/less-lethal.html

A compilation CD about sound-based nonlethal weaponry featuring tracks by Carlos Giffoni, Dave Phillips, Francisco López, Gæoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen, Justice Yeldham, Lasse Marhaug, Mark Fell, Powerbooks for Peace, Torturing Nurse, Weasel Walter and Zbigniew Karkowski.

Keywords: less-lethal, nonlethal, torture, warfare, noise, crowd control, psychoacoustics.

LESS-LETHAL, vol. 1 is a sarcastic approach to the use of commercially […]



Music for Airports, Brian Eno

By Chiu Longina • Mar 2nd, 2008 • Category: AUDIO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for_Airports
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno

This was the first of four albums released on Eno’s own, then new, Ambient label to actually carry the name “ambient” - a term which he had created to differentiate his minimalistic approach to the album’s material and “the products of the various purveyors of canned music”.

Notice of similarly quiet, unobtrusive music had been given […]



Festival Zeppelin. Sobre el Control (Barcelona)

By Chiu Longina • Feb 27th, 2008 • Category: AUDIO

Zéppelin 2005 reflexionó sobre el papel del sonido y la música en los mecanismos del control social

Los indicadores de los límites entre las acciones permitidas y las no permitidas son invisibles pero no inaudibles. Las sociedades están llenas de señales sonoras que marcan las barreras mucho antes que se vean y se hacen totalmente conscientes. […]