Sound Pressure: How Speaker Systems Influence, Manipulate and Torture

Heys, Toby

ISBN 10: 1786611120 / ISBN 13: 9781786611123

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Intl, 2019

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215 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sound Pressure: How Speaker Systems Influence, Manipulate and Torture
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Intl
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786611120
• ISBN 13: 9781786611123
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.52 kilograms

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Synopsis

Sound Pressure reveals how speaker systems mounted in public, employment, military and entertainment environments have played a pivotal role in the way that humans have been physiologically and psychologically organised and disciplined throughout the past century. The networked Wired Radio speakers of the 1920’s industrialised factory, acoustically anchor a narrative based on the functional utilisation of sound systems for insidious purposes; from the surround-sound techniques of the Waco siege, to the application of sonic torture in Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. Crucially, Sound Pressure identifies the logic behind the miniaturisation and disappearance of visible sound system technologies as they transmute into the ultrasonic dynamics of the Hypersonic Sound System and covert bone conduction techniques of Whispering Windows. The book charts an evolution of speaker technology that has been, and will be, used to influence, manipulate and torture the collective and isolated body. It amplifies the connections between LRADs, iPods, Mosquitos, Intonarumori, loudhailers, and Sequential Arc Discharge Acoustic Generators - the meta-network of speaker systems through which rhythms and cadences of power are transmitted, connected, and modulated.

About the Author

Toby Heys is a professor of digital arts at the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University and co-founder of the AUDINT sonic research unit.