SONIC WARFARE

Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dreadto produce a bad vibe. Sonic w eapons of this sort include the psychoacoustic correction aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Bra nch Davidians in Waco by the FBI, sonic booms (or sound bombs) over the Gaza Strip, and high-frequency rat repellants used against teenagers in malls. At the same time, artists and musicians generate intense frequencies in the search for new aesthetic experience s and new way...[Read more]