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From: "Blake Mikesell"
quoted 11 lines I went to a Sonic Youth show recently, and Wolf Eyes opened for them.
> > I went to a Sonic Youth show recently, and Wolf Eyes opened for them.
> > They're industrial/dark ambient. I was trying to get into their music,
> > but it
> > wasn't doing anything for me. At one point I started to feel terrible,
> > like I
> > needed to throw up and my head was spinning. I felt so bad I had to
> > sit down, and
> > the only thing I can attribute it to is the music. As soon as the song
> > was
> > over I felt better. This thread just reminded me of it...the end :)
> > akquoted 3 lines Maybe its intentional that they try
> Maybe its intentional that they try
> to create nausea in the listener. That still doesn't explain my friends
> rocking out though.
SONIC DOOM
An acoustic weapon disorients rioters and afflicts an invading army with nausea. It can create
'ghosts' and arouse animal passions. Fantastic? JACK SERGEANT, delving into the possible uses and
abuses of infrasound, isn't so sure.
http://www.borderlands.com/archives/arch/gavreaus.htm
"At a very specific pitch, infrasound explodes matter. At others, infrasound incapacitates and
kills. Organisms rupture in its blast. Sea creatures use this power to stun and kill prey. "
"Housed in a large concrete building, the entire group periodically experienced a disconcerting
nausea which flooded the research facility. Day after day, for weeks at a time, the symptoms
plagued the researchers. Called to inspect the situation, industrial examiners also fell victim to
the malady. It was thought that the condition was caused by pathogens, a "building sickness". No
such agencies were ever biologically detected. Yet the condition prevailed. Research schedules now
seriously interrupted, a complete examination of the building was called.
The researchers noticed that the mysterious nauseations ceased when certain laboratory windows were
blocked. It was then assumed that "chemical gas emissions" of some kind were responsible for the
malady, and so a thorough search of the building was undertaken. While no noxious fumes could be
detected by any technical means, the source was finally traced by building engineers to an
improperly installed motor-driven ventilator. The engineers at first thought that this motor might
be emitting noxious fumes, possibly evaporated oils and lubricants. But no evaporated products were
ever detected. It was found that the loosely poised low speed motor, poised in its cavernous duct
of several stories, was developing "nauseating vibrations".
The mystery magnified for Dr. Gavreau and his team, when they tried to measure the sound intensity
and pitch. Failing to register any acoustic readings at all, the team doubted the assessment of the
building engineers. Nevertheless, closing the windows blocked the sense of nausea. In a step of
brilliant scientific reasoning, Gavreau and his colleagues realized that the sound with which they
were dealing was so low in pitch that it could not register on any available microphonic detector.
The data was costly to the crew." etc.
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np: Non - Blood and Flame
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