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October 9, 2009: On the Weaponization of Music -- including an interview with Suzanne G. Cusick
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| Artist | Track | Album | Comments | Approx. start time | |
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| 0:00:00 ( ) | |||||
| Jeannie Lewis | Celluloid Heroes | Looking Backward to Tomorrow | 0:04:04 ( ) | ||
| Air Force Reserves promo | 0:09:52 ( ) | ||||
| Robert Wyatt | Heathens Have No Souls | Radio Experiment Rome, February 1981 | 0:11:31 ( ) | ||
| Jack Webb + Joe Williams | Come on Blues | v/a: Weekend Sound Flights '63 -- Air Force Reserve 5-minute programs | 0:18:50 ( ) | ||
| Max Wall | My Little Tune | v/a: You Are Awful But We Like You | 0:23:32 ( ) | ||
| Ronee Blakley | Fred Hampton | Ronee Blakley | 0:26:37 ( ) | ||
| Mel Blanc | Money | The Best of Mel Blanc, Man of 1000 Voices | 0:29:33 ( ) | ||
| Jim Carroll | To the National Endowment of the Arts | Praying Mantis | 0:31:55 ( ) | ||
| The Loud Family | The Ballad of How You Can All Shut Up | Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things | 0:33:54 ( ) | ||
| Herbie Nichols Trio | Terpsichore | The Complete Studio Master Takes | 0:42:00 ( ) | ||
| Francoise Hardy | Avec des Si | Mon Amour Adieu | 0:45:28 ( ) | ||
| Michael Caine | interview | Sdtk: Tonite Let's All Make Love in London | 0:48:10 ( ) | ||
| Marquess of Kensington | Changing of the Guard | Sdtk: Tonite Let's All Make Love in London | 0:48:59 ( ) | ||
| Nora Guthrie | Emily's Illness | 7" | Woody's daughter, recorded in 1967 | 0:52:25 ( ) | |
| Elsa Popping & Her Pixieland Band | Jalousie | Delirium in Hi-Fi | aka Andre Popp | 0:54:42 ( ) | |
| AN INTERVIEW WITH SUZANNE CUSICK: In recent years, the U.S. military has “weaponized” music and noise. Both on the battlefield and in U.S. detention facilities, so-called enemy combatants have been subjected to high-decibel sonic assaults in forms ranging from Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” to “I Love You,” sung by Barney the Purple Dinosaur. Musicologist Suzanne Cusick has been researching this use of music and sound for more than three years, including interviews with former detainees and military personnel. Tune in as David talks to Cusick about her findings, about the current policies under the Obama administration, and about the eerie resonance between music-as-torture and the revolution in musical aesthetics since John Cage. | |||||
| Suzanne Cusick | interview | Here are some links related to this interview: Zerodecibels.org | 1:02:56 ( ) | ||
| On Suzanne Cusick | 1:32:01 ( ) | ||||
| You might also be interested in Jonathan Pieslak’s Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War | 1:43:49 ( ) | ||||
| Cusick’s article “Music as Torture / Music as Weapon” | 1:19:21 ( ) | ||||
| Cusick’s article ““You are in a place that is out of the world. . .”: Music in the Detention Camps of the “Global War on Terror.” Sadly, this one's not available without a subscription. | 1:20:10 ( ) | ||||
| On the use of music against protesters at G20 summit in Pittsburgh | 1:26:48 ( ) | ||||
| On here’s an article on it from the AP/New York Times | 1:29:33 ( ) | ||||
| Faust | track 8 | tour only CD | 1:35:50 ( ) | ||
| White | 47 Rockets (For Wan Hu) | White | 1:40:15 ( ) | ||
| locked grooves | compiled and edited by yours truly, for WFMU's forthcoming locked groove LP | 1:46:33 ( ) | |||
| Family Fodder | Philosphy | Even More Great Hits! | 1:48:31 ( ) | ||
| Arthur Russell | Calling All Kids | Calling Out of Context | 1:51:20 ( ) | ||
| Edikanfo (The Pace Setters) | Blinking Eyes | African Super Band | prod. Brian Eno | 2:06:26 ( ) | |
| Misha Mengelberg Quartet | Kweka P'Kwana | Four in One | 2:10:29 ( ) | ||
| George Lewis | North Star Boogaloo | Endless Shout | based on a poem by Quincy Troupe | 2:16:16 ( ) | |
| End | LSD Made a Wreck Out of Me | The Dangerous Class | 2:37:02 ( ) | ||
| Felix Kubin | Der Hund Der Hond | Felix Kubin | 2:40:14 ( ) | ||
| Ros Bobos | Descend the Staircase | Mandatory Astral Projections | 2:43:19 ( ) | ||
| Evangelista | I Lay There in Front of Me Covered in Ice | Piece of Truth | 2:53:34 ( ) | ||
| 2:53:38 ( ) | |||||
Fri. 10/9/09 3:08pm
From:
Cecile
wow this is both impressive and kind of awful.
Fri. 10/9/09 3:14pm
From:
Yer DJ
You hit the nail on the head!
Fri. 10/9/09 3:15pm
From:
still b/p
Thank you, Jesus, for not putting me in the
room/venue/studio with Jeannie where I'd have to tell her it was...."Nice..really...nice..."
Amen.
Fri. 10/9/09 3:21pm
From:
Cecile
it's just the phrasing...and the overthetopness...it's like Julie Andrews singing Leonard Cohen or something.
Exactly, SBP
Fri. 10/9/09 3:24pm
From:
theo
i want to eat jack webb's voice
Fri. 10/9/09 3:26pm
From:
Cecile
here's what's funny - in the year homegrown bands were making a real name for themselves (AC/DC, Coloured Balls, Skyhooks) "Looking Backwards to Tomorrow" got some kind of huge Australian Album of the Year prize WITH NO RADIO AIRPLAY AT ALL. What?!?!?!?! Googling some of her later projects is kind of earnestly hilarious.
Fri. 10/9/09 3:30pm
From:
Cecile
Fred Hampton from the Black Panthers?
Fri. 10/9/09 3:31pm
From:
Yer DJ
Yes, that's the one.
Fri. 10/9/09 3:32pm
From:
Cecile
You are doing a great job testing today's interview subject matter on me today with these warped chanteuses.
Fri. 10/9/09 4:11pm
From:
Marshall Stacks
LRAD: http://www.atcsd.com/site/content/view/208/110/
Fri. 10/9/09 4:16pm
From:
lipwak
Years ago I was curious about what music was used at the siege at Waco. These guys re-enacted it. Info here:
http://wacoreenactment.org/index2.php?section=4&page=audiolist
Also, the use of loud sound by the Navy has had bad consequences on whales.... torture of a different sort.
Fri. 10/9/09 4:25pm
From:
Marshall Stacks
Great interview, David.
Trevor Paglen's written about the "Dark Prison," as has, if I remember correctly, Jane Mayer. Paglen's book: http://tinyurl.com/yhtb7sj. Mayer's: http://tinyurl.com/yfb4n4m.
Alfred W. McCoy was on top of this early: http://tinyurl.com/yg2lfvq.
The Geneva Conventions clearly outlaw psychological torture. The Danner piece on the ICRC report in the NYRB is chilling and depressing.
Fri. 10/9/09 4:29pm
From:
Harvey
How can I study with this woman?
Fri. 10/9/09 4:31pm
From:
north guinea hills
Don't forget the U.S. military playing heavy metal to dislodge Manuel Noriega from the Vatican embassy in 1989.
Fri. 10/9/09 4:36pm
From:
north guinea hills
Being forced to listen to Rage against the Machine would be torture in any circumstance.
Fri. 10/9/09 4:40pm
From:
Carmichael
Hello David, commenters and Faust.
Fri. 10/9/09 4:40pm
From:
Ricardo
Thanks for that little segment. That was good. I'm going to look into that zero decibel thing...
Fri. 10/9/09 4:44pm
From:
Cecile
Me, too.
Fri. 10/9/09 4:44pm
From:
Cheri Pi
is this band White on the Look directly into the Sun comp? It sounds so familiar...
Fri. 10/9/09 4:44pm
From:
DS
A small request to David, could you stop using "war on terror"
you well know the term is bullshit
Fri. 10/9/09 4:50pm
From:
paul
oh wow, i remember the "gay bar" remix contest. total blast from the fmu past...
Fri. 10/9/09 4:50pm
From:
lipwak
- http://www.zerodb.org/ worked. Was that the one you wanted, David?
- The link to Zerodecibels.org takes me to a parked domain though when I get there it changes to http://zerodb.com/
- The link to the NYT article is "malformed."
I do see you've updated some of these links so maybe they will be taken care of eventually.
Fri. 10/9/09 4:56pm
From:
Carmichael
Arthur sounds like a Communards wanna-be.
Fri. 10/9/09 4:57pm
From:
erm
Sound is definitely torture. I just had to suffer through "street vibration" which is when 25,000 jerks with really loud motorcycles show up in Reno. I would love to get my hands on one of these sonic weapons so I could drive downtown and subject these a hole bikers to 150dB of Manilow.
Fri. 10/9/09 4:57pm
From:
Yer DJ
thanks re bad links -- I'll correct 'em as soon as I can
Fri. 10/9/09 5:08pm
From:
keith
no high pitch here. plus my pugs just laid there...but what else is new?
Fri. 10/9/09 5:09pm
From:
tim
David! Sound cannons come under the heading of "non-lethal weapons" which were a big part of late-Clinton and early-Bush DoD research. They are about controlling civilian populations, and most are lethal, just not instantly.
Fri. 10/9/09 5:10pm
From:
Carmichael
Nuthin' like a little ass wigglin' on a Friday afternoon.
Fri. 10/9/09 5:11pm
From:
DS
the bandwidth of FM is only about 3500hz
even hifi speakers have bandwidth of at most 20,000hz
Fri. 10/9/09 5:13pm
From:
Cecile
keith, open the fridge door, and watch 'em wake up. LOL!
Fri. 10/9/09 5:14pm
From:
keith
yeah, then it's tornado time -- they spin like you wouldn't believe!
Fri. 10/9/09 5:16pm
From:
Cecile
oh, yeah. Can opener for cats, fridge door for dogs. Never fails.
Fri. 10/9/09 5:40pm
From:
Cecile
David, I have enjoyed your show a lot!
I hope you won't be a stranger around these parts, and we'll catch you subbing a lot!
Fri. 10/9/09 5:41pm
From:
Carmichael
Are you sure this isn't The Shadows??
Fri. 10/9/09 5:41pm
From:
angrysaturday
I'm getting here late . . . is this the last Inner Ear Detour show? Ever?
Fri. 10/9/09 5:42pm
From:
angrysaturday
I'm getting here late . . . is this the last Inner Ear Detour show? Ever?
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