Research Notes (Goodman Rips)

Pretty much all my interests are mentioned in the first 3 chapters of Steve Goodmans Sonic Warfare. His notes are an interesting warren. I've picked out some. 3rd one down, the recording of Tape No. 10 for the Wandering Soul project from the US Psyops on the Vietcong -  features an audio track that was played at high volume through the trees to taunt them (the Vietcong).

Rob Young, Exotic Audio Research

Acoustic Weapons? Sources, Propagation, and Effects of Strong Sound. - Jurgen Altmann

Recording of the Wandering Soul Tape from US Psyops

Deadly Vibrations: A Brief History of Sonic Warfare By B.G. Nichols

Adam Harper on Cornelius Cardew's Alien Scores

There is a great little article by Adam Harper of Rouge's Foam in the Epiphanies page at the back of this months The Wire magazine (335). It's all about Cornelius Cardew's 'Treatise' score. You can check out some other pieces of Cardew's work over on Ubuweb. Here's a video of Treatise:

After all the discussion of form, mode of investigation I felt there's a nice parallel to be found whilst contemplating Cardew's scores - the undefined exterior..., and this also ties in with my investigations into sub-sonic 'sounds' and infra-sonic 'sounds': sounds outside our listening range, inaudible sounds... So much of sound is outside the simple logos that's presented (or projected?) - like the Chion text, the meaning is often generated internally, it's heard between the ear-drums.... it's there in our soul or our minds - Cardew's scores remind me of this. Here are some images of his scores:

Page 134

Page 72

Page 29

Selection

Ideas and Refs (Dolar to Goodman?)

Just a few things I'll be pondering over.

Noise and Capitalism (thanks Janna)

Infrasound

The Hum and also Otoacoustics

General Sonic Weapons

LRAD

Binaural Ghosts

Binaural Beats Wiki

Brainwave synchronization

Gnaural

CRESSON

Like I have said over on Vocalities blog about the schism of the voice into an extimatic dyad comprising of the alogos exo-remnant and the logosified (mutilated) main - language, I feel that sound also succumbs to this schism. Most sounds are now language, sonic cues and aural signs (hence Chion's quad's existence, or need to be used - the sign doesn't need to be studied, we don't listen to all sounds, we just read) - I'd like to use the above phenomena as a jump off to start questioning how, and why these sonics are so effective - I presume it's because they operate through an intrinsically internal platform, but not mediated by 'listening' - see binaurals - or are simply outside of our listening 'reading', exo-logos, -  see Infrasound perhaps. To map this out is my first task - then perhaps later I can start investigating the connected politics, sonic-ethics, and spatial existence.