Tristam was talking about sonic emitters as weaponry in Auditions this afternoon. Made me wonder about gestural interfaces such as the theremin, which registers how close one is to two ariels, pitch and volume, and emits sound correspondingly. Also began thinking about the brown note.
The brown note "is a theoretical infrasonic frequency that would cause humans to lose control of their bowels due to resonance." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note]. Mythbusters attempted to bust the myth, see below. Watch as Barthe's "stupid organ", the lungs (The Grain of the Voice), get a workout.
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Typewriter Against My Knee: Art Writing and Life Writing, University of
Sussex, 19 June
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I am giving the keynote presentation at the Typewriter Against My Knee: Art
Writing and Life Writing conference, University of Sussex, Brighton, 19
June.
6 days ago
I'll see your brown note myth, and I'll raise you: The Vortex Cannon!
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Not quite sure if it qualifies as sound though...
This is interesting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_weapons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_range_acoustic_device
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasonic