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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Tip Kode9's Sonic Warfare Book

Posted by on Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 4:30 PM

Kode9 (aka Steve Goodman) has just published a book in Britain titled Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear (MIT Press). It's a theoretical study of military audio research and its relation to bass-centric club music and dystopian fiction and film.

In an interview with Derek Walmsley in the December 2009 issue of The Wire, Goodman observed: "These fictions of sonic warfare signal the importance of the often neglected politics of frequency, which cuts across the whole of sonic culture."

Anyone who's listened to a Merzbow or Masonna record or attended a My Bloody Valentine or Sunn O))) (among many other possible examples) show can relate to Goodman's interest in sound as weapon and enforcer of social control. Take good care of yourselves out there.

 

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in-frequent 1
isn't the sample in this track used in seven samurai? interesting in light of this post.
Posted by in-frequent on January 1, 2010 at 2:10 PM

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