http://www.metafilter.com/tags/lowfrequency Posts tagged with 'lowfrequency' at MetaFilter. Mon, 19 May 2003 03:56:20 -0800 Mon, 19 May 2003 03:56:20 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/25852/Infrasound%2Dfeel%2Dthe%2Dbass <a href="http://www.borderlands.com/newstuff/research/infra.htm">Infrasound</a> : <a title="'Elephant calls are generally 2-10 seconds in duration with the fundamental frequencies ranging from 5 Hz (in the infrasonic range) to 50 Hz (in the audible range)' - listen to them here" href="http://birds.cornell.edu/brp/SoundsEleRumble.html">Elephants</a> use it to communicate, the military have sought to <a title="French roboticist Vladimir Gavreau and his colleagues suffered mysterious symptoms at their research facility. Investigations revealed infrasound as the culprit, prompting research into potential military applications" href="http://www.borderlands.com/newstuff/research/gavreaus.htm">harness</a> its power as a <a title="'Primex Physics International Company (PPI) is developing an Acoustic Blaster (pat. pending) that is a credible, cost-effective way to employ non-lethal technology'" href="http://trauma.cofa.unsw.edu.au/Infrasound/AcousticBlaster.pdf">weapon</a> (.pdf). So have <a title="'To replace the dilapidated Ford Timelord Jimmy Cauty purchased two Saracen armoured vehicles at a scrap yard for UKP 4,000 and found equipment in them which he thought could have been used for sonic warfare. He has tried to assemble the acoustic gun from information he found on the Internet.'" href="http://www.illitrate.co.uk/klf/FAQ/faq4012.html">The KLF</a>. Now, a group of avant garde musicians invite you to <a title="At London's Purcell Room on May 31st, Evgenia Chudinovich will perform contemporary piano pieces, accompanied by a massive resonating pipe pumping infrasonic frequencies into the audience" href="http://www.infrasonicmusic.co.uk/background.htm">feel the bass</a>. If reports of the <a title="'The Feraliminal Lycanthropizer is a low frequency thanato-auric wave generator. Known for its use by the Nazis and for its animalizing effects on human subjects tested within measurable vibratory proximity.' Or something." href="http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/log/archive/8/feraliminal/">Feraliminal Lycanthropizer</a> are to be believed, that could be one hell of a gig. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.25852 Mon, 19 May 2003 03:56:20 -0800 animals bass elephants experiments infrasound klf lowfrequency music nazis sound jack_mo