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

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.