Given low bass (inaudible) frequencies' ability to "travel" through solid
matter.. I don't see any reason for closing a window to have any bearing on
the frequencies. I don't doubt the ability of sound to cause varying
reactions (even I've experimented with low frequency cycles in attempt to
put myself to sleep), but its practical application STILL hasn't been fully
achieved, even in the military sector.
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-----Original Message-----
From: seek [mailto:eclectics@comcast.net]
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 6:47 PM
To: idm@hyperreal.org
Subject: Re: [idm] creeped out sonic weaponry
----- Original Message -----
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.
seek
np: Non - Blood and Flame
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