Less-Lethal: Album as non-lethal weapon

Less-Lethal Vol 1 is a compilation of tracks inspired by the idea of using music (or sound, at least) as a form of torture... "Particularly the sheer lack of imagination on the part of military experts who resort to the use of pop music as a weapon, by playing it back for painfully long periods of time at very high volumes." Tragically, I can't find any sound clips online, so you'll just have to imagine what it sounds like. (Thanks AR)

Posted by Tom Whitwell.

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francisco lopez on a comp devoted to music as torture? a more appropriate meeting could never be found.

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micah : 12:35 am

Really? We still doin' the Rickroll thing? In 2008?

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Anonymous : 1:35 am

ive seen justice yeldham live- he plays broken glass with his face via a contact mic. seriously. check out youtube for live videos if you dare...

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Anonymous : 5:47 pm

some of it is downright annoying (intentionally) - but there's a fair bit of listen-able music on there. i've put up a sound-clip of the powerbooks for peace track ::

http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/labels/alku.html

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Anonymous : 5:49 am

In one of the videos about Wako and David Koresh, the ATF/FBI was playing (among other things) the Tibetan throat-singing monks at him as torture. I thought that was pretty perverse.

Then they (working together) burned up all the children and folks.

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Anonymous : 8:11 pm

I'm surprised that Merzbow didn't make the list, nor the second track from John Zorn's "Kristallnacht." I tried to listen to the Zorn piece and couldn't make it through the first listen. High frequency sound breaking glass; can you get more torturous than that? Just for fairness, I love Zorn and the rest of "Kristallnact" is pretty good; not a huge Merzbow fan, though.

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Zach : 10:05 pm

that made me laugh...so ...hard...i thought i zapped that out my collective knowledge

-matia

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matia : 12:41 am

I was Rickrolled. :(

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Pikachu : 11:10 pm

Speaking about torture id anybody see this?

It’s good old Gaeoudjiparl (also on the LESS-LETHAL, vol. 1).. Going on for about 50 minutes about computer music

Hardcore and frankly very very close to torture as well!

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/01/goodiepal-and-t.html

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