Re: [microsound] the power of sound

[P BJ <p.b-j@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually I think I was thinking about "Seven Souls" by Material (feat WSB) - 
he reads something there about "to date we do not have sound sufficiently 
powerful to act as a practical weapon". I like the fact you can never tell 
when he's serious about these things. But I've also got some memory about 
some sort of social control idea he had about starting a riot by playing 
back riot sounds in a street. Sort of extreme phonography?

How was the dream-machine BTW - I seem to recall some scaremongering article 
about it being linked to suicides (Kurt Cobain had one apparently). 
Presumably you made it through unscathed.


> From: Rod Stasick <rod@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: [microsound] the power of sound
> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:24:19 -0500
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> Are you talking about Brion Gysin's "Dreamachine"?
> I bought one of those in the 80's.
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> Rod
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> On 2006 Oct 23, at 8:03 AM, gpond@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > > Wasn't William Burroughs interested in sound as a weapon?
> >
> > I think what Burroughs said was if he was a good writer then he could
> > write something that would kill, that is probably why he  experimented 
> > with
> > light sculptures made from of record players that aimed to induce  seizure
> > from the high rate of flickering light that they produced.
> >
> > greg
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