We are entering an age where sound is being repositioned as a tool of terror.
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rantnrave:// Music as a weapon: The U.S. military interrogators who blasted DEICIDE, BRITNEY SPEARS and BARNEY at prisoners in the war on terror weren't the first to recognize music's own potential for inflicting terror. In his essay "The Sound of Fear," LAWRENCE ENGLISH, a doctoral student in music, traces this use of music back to the biblical BATTLE OF JERICHO, in which JOSHUA's army toppled the walls of the city with trumpets. While the story is almost certainly apocryphal, English notes that it stands as evidence that even thousands of years ago, armies recognized "the physiological and the psychological implications of sound in warfare." His history of terroristic sound from Joshua's army to the Aztec death whistle to Nazi sirens to BLACK SABBATH and NANCY SINATRA makes for compellingly frightening reading... ANOHNI says APPLE essentially weaponized her "DRONE BOMB ME" video—which the tech giant funded—into "a more potent advertising tool for Apple than a hundred more explicit ads." She regrets working with APPLE ("I felt like a house cat that had been declawed"), and uses the story as the springboard for a lengthy rant against both corporate sponsorship and the streaming music economy. More compellingly frightening reading. (The Anohni interview, by the way, comes from ex-PITCHFORK editor BRANDON STOSUY's promising new project, THE CREATIVE INDEPENDENT, which is posting one interview per day. Here's PHILIP GLASS trying to follow the money in the streaming economy)... PUSSY RIOT's NADYA TOLOKONNIKOVA on how to use music (among other tools) as a political weapon... DAVE EGGERS' "30 DAYS, 30 SONGS" project, which will feature one new or unreleased song per day from 30 artists seeking to sing DONALD TRUMP out of the public's hair, launches with an on-the-nose (and kinda great) DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE tune... G'mar tov to any readers observing YOM KIPPUR.
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