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October 9, 2009: On the Weaponization of Music -- including an interview with Suzanne G. Cusick
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Jeannie Lewis | Celluloid Heroes | Looking Backward to Tomorrow | 0:04:04 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Air Force Reserves promo | 0:09:52 (Pop-up) | |||||||||
Robert Wyatt | Heathens Have No Souls | Radio Experiment Rome, February 1981 | 0:11:31 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Jack Webb + Joe Williams | Come on Blues | v/a: Weekend Sound Flights '63 -- Air Force Reserve 5-minute programs | 0:18:50 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Max Wall | My Little Tune | v/a: You Are Awful But We Like You | 0:23:32 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Ronee Blakley | Fred Hampton | Ronee Blakley | 0:26:37 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Mel Blanc | Money | The Best of Mel Blanc, Man of 1000 Voices | 0:29:33 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Jim Carroll | To the National Endowment of the Arts | Praying Mantis | 0:31:55 (Pop-up) | |||||||
The Loud Family | The Ballad of How You Can All Shut Up | Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things | 0:33:54 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Herbie Nichols Trio | Terpsichore | The Complete Studio Master Takes | 0:42:00 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Francoise Hardy | Avec des Si | Mon Amour Adieu | 0:45:28 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Michael Caine | interview | Sdtk: Tonite Let's All Make Love in London | 0:48:10 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Marquess of Kensington | Changing of the Guard | Sdtk: Tonite Let's All Make Love in London | 0:48:59 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Nora Guthrie | Emily's Illness | 7" | Woody's daughter, recorded in 1967 | 0:52:25 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Elsa Popping & Her Pixieland Band | Jalousie | Delirium in Hi-Fi | aka Andre Popp | 0:54:42 (Pop-up) | ||||||
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 (Pop-up) | |||||||
On Suzanne Cusick | 1:32:01 (Pop-up) | |||||||||
You might also be interested in Jonathan Pieslak’s Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War | 1:43:49 (Pop-up) | |||||||||
Cusick’s article “Music as Torture / Music as Weapon” | 1:19:21 (Pop-up) | |||||||||
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 (Pop-up) | |||||||||
On the use of music against protesters at G20 summit in Pittsburgh | 1:26:48 (Pop-up) | |||||||||
On here’s an article on it from the AP/New York Times | 1:29:33 (Pop-up) | |||||||||
Faust | track 8 | tour only CD | 1:35:50 (Pop-up) | |||||||
White | 47 Rockets (For Wan Hu) | White | 1:40:15 (Pop-up) | |||||||
locked grooves | compiled and edited by yours truly, for WFMU's forthcoming locked groove LP | 1:46:33 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
Family Fodder | Philosphy | Even More Great Hits! | 1:48:31 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Arthur Russell | Calling All Kids | Calling Out of Context | 1:51:20 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Edikanfo (The Pace Setters) | Blinking Eyes | African Super Band | prod. Brian Eno | 2:06:26 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Misha Mengelberg Quartet | Kweka P'Kwana | Four in One | 2:10:29 (Pop-up) | |||||||
George Lewis | North Star Boogaloo | Endless Shout | based on a poem by Quincy Troupe | 2:16:16 (Pop-up) | ||||||
End | LSD Made a Wreck Out of Me | The Dangerous Class | 2:37:02 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Felix Kubin | Der Hund Der Hond | Felix Kubin | 2:40:14 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Ros Bobos | Descend the Staircase | Mandatory Astral Projections | 2:43:19 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Evangelista | I Lay There in Front of Me Covered in Ice | Piece of Truth | 2:53:34 (Pop-up) | |||||||
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Listener comments!
Cecile:
Yer DJ:
still b/p:
room/venue/studio with Jeannie where I'd have to tell her it was...."Nice..really...nice..."
Amen.
Cecile:
Exactly, SBP
theo:
Cecile:
Cecile:
Yer DJ:
Cecile:
Marshall Stacks:
lipwak:
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.
Marshall Stacks:
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.
Harvey:
north guinea hills:
north guinea hills:
Carmichael:
Ricardo:
Cecile:
Cheri Pi:
DS:
you well know the term is bullshit
paul:
lipwak:
- 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.
Carmichael:
erm:
Yer DJ:
keith:
tim:
Carmichael:
DS:
even hifi speakers have bandwidth of at most 20,000hz
Cecile:
keith:
Cecile:
Cecile:
I hope you won't be a stranger around these parts, and we'll catch you subbing a lot!
Carmichael:
angrysaturday:
angrysaturday: