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Sound Pressure
How Speaker Systems Influence, Manipulate and Torture
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2019
Summary
Sound Pressure reveals how speaker systems mounted in public, employment, military and entertainment environments have played a pivotal role in the way that humans have been physiologically and psychologically organised and disciplined throughout the past century. The networked Wired Radio speakers of the 1920’s industrialised factory, acoustically anchor a narrative based on the functional utilisation of sound systems for insidious purposes; from the surround-sound techniques of the Waco siege, to the application of sonic torture in Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. Crucially, Sound Pressure identifies the logic behind the miniaturisation and disappearance of visible sound system technologies as they transmute into the ultrasonic dynamics of the Hypersonic Sound System and covert bone conduction techniques of Whispering Windows. The book charts an evolution of speaker technology that has been, and will be, used to influence, manipulate and torture the collective and isolated body. It amplifies the connections between LRADs, iPods, Mosquitos, Intonarumori, loudhailers, and Sequential Arc Discharge Acoustic Generators - the meta-network of speaker systems through which rhythms and cadences of power are transmitted, connected, and modulated.
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Edition
1/2019
Copyright Year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-78661-112-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-78661-113-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
216
Product Type
Monograph
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Foreword: Speakers Dave Tompkins No access
Acknowledgements No access
Introduction Frequency-Based Force No access Pages 1 - 22
Chapter One Muzak’s Influence in the Fordist Factory No access Pages 23 - 48
Chapter Two Surround-Sound Manipulation at the Waco Siege No access Pages 49 - 76
Chapter Three Torture in Black Ecstasy at Guantánamo Bay No access Pages 77 - 122
Chapter Four The Covert Aims of Directional Ultrasound No access Pages 123 - 150
Chapter Five Whispering to Talking Windows No access Pages 151 - 176
Conclusion Phantom Sound Systems No access Pages 177 - 188
