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Sound Pressure reveals how speaker systems mounted in public, employment, military and entertainment environments have played a pivotal role in the way that humans have been physiologically and psychologically organised and disciplined throughout the past century. The networked Wired Radio speakers of the 1920’s industrialised factory, acoustically anchor a narrative based on the functional utilisation of sound systems for insidious purposes; from the surround-sound techniques of the Waco siege, to the application of sonic torture in Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. Crucially, Sound Pressure identifies the logic behind the miniaturisation and disappearance of visible sound system technologies as they transmute into the ultrasonic dynamics of the Hypersonic Sound System and covert bone conduction techniques of Whispering Windows. The book charts an evolution of speaker technology that has been, and will be, used to influence, manipulate and torture the collective and isolated body. It amplifies the connections between LRADs, iPods, Mosquitos, Intonarumori, loudhailers, and Sequential Arc Discharge Acoustic Generators - the meta-network of speaker systems through which rhythms and cadences of power are transmitted, connected, and modulated.

Loudspeakers --- Public address systems --- Sound --- Organization --- Discipline --- Equipment and supplies

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Transducteurs électroacoustiques --- Haut-parleurs --- Microphones --- Microphone. --- Loudspeakers. --- Electroacoustic transducers.

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High-fidelity sound systems. --- Loudspeakers. --- Acoustical engineering --- Haut-parleurs. --- Enceintes acoustiques. --- Génie acoustique. --- Génie acoustique.

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Loudspeakers. --- Haut-parleurs. --- Acoustical engineering. --- Génie acoustique. --- Psychoacoustics. --- Psychoacoustique. --- Génie acoustique.

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"Composers and sound artists have explored for decades how to transform microphones and loudspeakers from ?inaudible? technology into genuinely new musical instruments. While the sound reproduction industry had claimed perfect high fidelity already at the beginning of the twentieth century, these artists found surprising ways of use ? for instance tweaking microphones, swinging loudspeakers furiously around, ditching microphones in all kinds of vessels, or strapping loudspeakers to body parts of the audience. Between air and electricity traces their quest and sets forward a new theoretical framework, providing historic background on technological and artistic development, and diagrams of concert and performance set-ups. From popular noise musician Merzbow to minimalist classic Alvin Lucier, cult instrument inventor Hugh Davies, or contemporary visual artist Lynn Pook ? they all aimed to make audible what was supposed to remain silent. www.microphonesandloudspeakers.com."--

Sound --- Electronic music --- Microphone. --- Loudspeakers. --- Recording and reproducing --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Loud-speakers --- Speakers (Loudspeakers) --- Electroacoustic transducers --- Transducers --- Equipment and supplies --- Microphone --- Loudspeakers --- Acoustics --- Continuum mechanics --- Mathematical physics --- Physics --- Pneumatics --- Radiation --- Wave-motion, Theory of --- Recording and reproducing&delete& --- History --- History and criticism --- Music --- Instruction & Study --- Composition