Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Hardcover)

Steve Goodman

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2009-11-20
  • 售價: $1,400
  • 貴賓價: 9.8$1,372
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 296
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0262013479
  • ISBN-13: 9780262013475
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Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambiance of fear or dread—to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the "psychoacoustic correction" aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in Waco by the FBI, sonic booms (or "sound bombs") over the Gaza Strip, and high-frequency rat repellents used against teenagers in malls. At the same time, artists and musicians generate intense frequencies in the search for new aesthetic experiences and new ways of mobilizing bodies in rhythm. In Sonic Warfare, Steve Goodman explores these uses of acoustic force and how they affect populations.

Most theoretical discussions of sound and music cultures in relationship to power, Goodman argues, have a missing dimension: the politics of frequency. Goodman supplies this by drawing a speculative diagram of sonic forces, investigating the deployment of sound systems in the modulation of affect. Traversing philosophy, science, fiction, aesthetics, and popular culture, he maps a (dis)continuum of vibrational force, encompassing police and military research into acoustic means of crowd control, the corporate deployment of sonic branding, and the intense sonic encounters of sound art and music culture.

Goodman concludes with speculations on the not yet heard—the concept of unsound, which relates to both the peripheries of auditory perception and the unactualized nexus of rhythms and frequencies within audible bandwidths.

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聲音可以被運用來產生不適感、表達威脅,或創造一種恐懼或驚懼的氛圍,以產生不好的氛圍。這種聲波武器包括美國陸軍針對巴拿馬強人曼努埃爾·諾列加和聯邦調查局針對瓦科的分支大衛教派使用的「心理聽覺矯正」,在加薩地帶上空發出的音爆(或稱「聲音炸彈」),以及用於對付商場裡的青少年的高頻率驅鼠器。與此同時,藝術家和音樂家通過產生強烈的頻率來尋求新的美學體驗和以節奏調動身體的新方式。在《聲波戰爭》中,史蒂夫·古德曼探討了這些聲學力量的使用方式以及它們對人群的影響。

古德曼主張,關於聲音和音樂文化與權力的理論討論大多缺少一個維度:「頻率政治」。古德曼通過繪製一個推測性的聲波力量圖表,探究聲音系統在情感調節中的應用。他跨越哲學、科學、虛構、美學和流行文化,繪製了一個(不)連續的振動力量連續體,包括警察和軍方對聲學群體控制手段的研究、企業對聲音品牌的運用,以及聲音藝術和音樂文化中的強烈聲音交響。

古德曼最後對尚未聽到的事物進行了推測,即「非聲音」的概念,它既涉及聽覺感知的邊緣,也涉及可聽頻帶內未實現的節奏和頻率的聯繫。

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