Has anyone read Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear?

[Phogmasheeen]

This popped up in my feed and I wondered if it was worth the time.
Has anyone read this, if you have would you recommend it?
Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction) Paperback – Illustrated, August 17, 2012
by Steve Goodman (Author)

[NoiseWiki]

This popped up in my feed and I wondered if it was worth the time.
Has anyone read this, if you have would you recommend it?
Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction) Paperback – Illustrated, August 17, 2012
by Steve Goodman (Author)

First I think I've heard of it.. we have a books thread somewhere...

I just ordered it..

[RUBBISH]

I just downloaded it and now browsing through it I'm gonna say its probably pretty interesting


Now Reading is the thread in MISC.

[NoiseWiki]

First I think I've heard of it.. we have a books thread somewhere...

Yea seems to be a new one to the forum.. here's the Noise Book thread

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=245

[RUBBISH]

..whoa suggested related book that came up



AUDINT—Unsound:Undead
By Steve Goodman, Toby Heys, Eleni Ikoniadou

Tracing the the potential of sound, infrasound, and ultrasound to access anomalous zones of transmission between the realms of the living and the dead.

For as long as recording and communications technologies have existed, operators have evoked the potential of sound, infrasound, and ultrasound to access anomalous zones of transmission between the realms of the living and the dead. In Unsound:Undead, contributors from a variety of disciplines chart these undead zones, mapping out a nonlinear timeline populated by sonic events stretching from the 8th century BC (the song of the Sirens), to 2013 (acoustic levitation), with a speculative extension into 2057 (the emergence of holographic and holosonic phenomena).

[RUBBISH]

First I think I've heard of it.. we have a books thread somewhere...

Yea seems to be a new one to the forum.. here's the Noise Book thread

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=245

Currently Reading in MISC is for non noise books

[RUBBISH]

Some quotes...just starting in but some good stuff already.



Noise....is therefore understood as intrinsically radical, as that which lies outside music, that which threatens music from without, rejuvenating it, giving it the energy to do anything new.

noise had always been experienced as destruction, disorder, dirt, pollution, an aggression against the code-structuring messages. In all cultures, it has been associated with the idea of the weapon, blasphemy, plague,”

The concept of ‘noise’ has made a big comeback in recent years... the irritating end of it is all those artist aiming for ye old ‘shock effect,’ their pure noise laden with content of tediously ‘transgressive’ nature (all the old clichéd faves of vileness and violation: serial murder, neo-Nazis, yawn...). The blindingly obvious fact is that no one shockable is within earshot; there’s no disruption or challenge in these scenes, because they’re screeching to the converted.


Need we be reminded that noise, like anything else that touches you, can be a source of both pleasure and pain and that “beyond a certain limit, it becomes an immaterial weapon of death.

[Phogmasheeen]

I saw this one too.

..whoa suggested related book that came up
The bit about "anomalous zones of transmission between the realms of the living and the dead" seems a bit "ouija board" to me. I don't think it would stop me from checking it out.

Phog


AUDINT—Unsound:Undead
By Steve Goodman, Toby Heys, Eleni Ikoniadou

Tracing the the potential of sound, infrasound, and ultrasound to access anomalous zones of transmission between the realms of the living and the dead.

For as long as recording and communications technologies have existed, operators have evoked the potential of sound, infrasound, and ultrasound to access anomalous zones of transmission between the realms of the living and the dead. In Unsound:Undead, contributors from a variety of disciplines chart these undead zones, mapping out a nonlinear timeline populated by sonic events stretching from the 8th century BC (the song of the Sirens), to 2013 (acoustic levitation), with a speculative extension into 2057 (the emergence of holographic and holosonic phenomena).

[Soloman Tump]

I have the Audint book.

Its *fairly* interesting, plenty of short / strange fictional pieces, some rooted in research and data, others seemingly nonsensical and pure conjecture.