Vocoder day; sound as weapon, weapon as sound

Originally employed for telecommunications applications in the 30’s and during World War II, the vocoder was in later years repurposed as a voice-altering tool for musicians. Bands like Kraftwerk made the vocoder one of the most ubiquitous voices of popular music in the last century. The symposium Vocoder Day explores the history of the vocoder and sound as a weapon. This symposium will gather contributions by Dave Tompkins, author of the book How to Wreck a Nice Beach, Steve Goodman aka Kode9, artist, DJ and author of Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear, and sound artist Kalle Laar.
3 lectures at jan van eyck academy, organised by Hans-Christian Dany.

DAVE TOMKINS : vocoder history : how to recognise speech -> http://howtowreckanicebeach.com/ (mit vielen beispielen bz links zu..)

die geschichte des vocoders ist eine geschichte der sprachkompression und der militärischen forschung. übertragung verschlüsselter sprachnachrichten im krieg. zwischen geheimdiensten und präsidenten die miteinander telefonieren.

More Bounce To The Ounce... so gehts

Pyramid Plus 'Comin' At Ya' (Lifeworld 1983)

africa bambaataa :

egyptian lover :

alien nation :

pack jam :

scorpio :

pumpkin - king of the beat

KALLE LAAR - http://www.klangmuseum.de/

sound noise rauschen übertragung geisterstimmen

oscar schellbach :

if the bomb falls: schallplatte

okkulte stimmen suppose label

the conet project : signale (zählen) rund um botschaften herum

flight f-i-n-a-l : a dramatic comparison to death : dramatisierung einer todeserfahrung analog zu einem abflug vom flughafen

Jim Jones, People's Temple Choir He's able

The Sounds of American Doomsday Cults

the final houdini seance

steve goodman aka kode 9 gründer des hyperdub labels / unterrichtet 'art and digital industry'

stichworte: sonic warfare / haunting, spooking / automated environment / predator environment / self motivated objects + environments / objects have agencies / objects individual paranoid schizophonic

  • sound branding -sonic equivalent of dejavu - muzak
  • verführung durch sound
  • any object can speak

weapon is vocalised,

afrofuturism and cyberfeminism (haraway manifesto)

vocaloid : txt2speech, nun auch mit noten - beispiel singende roboterin

ghost army : http://ghostarmy.org

  • The weapons they deployed were decidedly unusual: hundreds of inflatable tanks and a one-of-a-kind collection of sound effects records. Their mission was to use bluff, deception, and trickery to save lives. It’s amazing, the fakery that we were able to perpetrate upon the enemy.

LRAD - directionalaudio

andere kontrolltechniken

  • unsound - nichthörbare frequenzen - ultrasound, infrasound
  • mosquito - sound to repell youth - http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk/mosquito-mk4-multi-age
  • 'klassische' musik und die verweildauer in bahnhöfen
  • AUDiNT has been conducting research, rituals, and experiments into the opening of the 3rd ear, a dimension that materializes when sound, ultrasound, and infrasound are simultaneously deployed in a precise schema of sequencing, duration, and amplification.