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Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear
Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread--to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the "psychoacoustic correction" aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in Waco by the FBI, sonic booms (or "sound bombs") over the Gaza Strip, and high-frequency rat r...more
Hardcover, 270 pages
Published
December 1st 2009
by MIT Press (MA)
(first published 2009)
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There's a huge difference between Kode9--as he exists behind his CDJs--and Steve Goodman, as he exists away from the booth. While his Hyperdub imprint has radically shaped the world of electronic music as we now hear it, his work as a scholar of sonics puts an ear to something often spoken of in his alter-ego's world of "dubstep"--the feeling. There is an entire world below the depths of your headphones and far above your speaker tweeters, and Goodman aims to explore the whole thing in this book...more
this book consistently blew me away. i don't think i've ever have a book rock me quite like this. i got so many new ideas going around in my head afterward. it seriously electrified my sense of urgency around the culture war! we go from sonic bombs dropped by the idf on gaza to the sound of the maroon's abeng striking terror into the british army to sonic lasers to jeep beats to muzak and beyond. if you're needing to get your eschatology fix steve goodman doesn't disappoint. i've never read anyt...more
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ive been waiting to get my filthy fingers on this book for 6 months or more. thank you m.i.t. press i love your buchs!
Skimmed for what I needed. Tawdry academia.
Only read pieces of this so far, but so far so good. This book reads like a doctoral dissertation with a bit more spit and polish. Which is kind of a bummer as there's some great ideas here made a little too cloudy by academic puffery.
Bass materialism and virology.
I expected more from Kode9, who is one of dubstep's leading stars. I kept reading this, skimming around, wanting to hear more about dubstep, and how Kode9 basically spearheaded the entire Hyperdub movement. I think he is overly influenced by Kodwo Eshun (author of 'More Brilliant Than The Sun'), and it shows here. I appreciate the depth and enthusiasm he digs into sound and affect. Maybe it would help to read to this while watching his remix of Skeng, or Black Sun to orient the gentle reader to...more
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