Gallery@Calit2- PRESSURE FIELD CALZADA by AUDINT (Max)

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• 00:00:00

  Good afternoon. My name is Chiroque Yadegari. I'm a faculty in the Department of Music and the Director of the Sonic Arts Research and Development here at QI. And I have the pleasure of welcoming you to today's presentation in the gallery by Toby Hayes and John Barnett. I'll give you a very short introduction, talk…

• 00:10:22

  For 18 of the 21 individuals, the JAMA article said that there were reports of hearing a novel, localised sound at the onset of symptoms in their homes and hotel rooms in Havana. Affected individuals described the sounds as directional, intensely loud and with pure and sustained tonality, although some described…

• 00:17:09

  In an ongoing period that began in early August 2017, Audient became entangled in a meme complex emanating from and propagated by the State Department of the USA. This memeplex was drenched in uncertainty and disinformation, and was hosted by a cast of characters- White House employees, journalists of the mainstream…

• 00:28:17

  that there is something there, but they can't. And so this invisible agent of attack becomes, as you mentioned, a sort of locus for all kinds of other collective anxieties, not necessarily hysteria, but complaints, fears. There are sort of problems in collectivities that people can't speak about, and so they speak…

• 00:35:11

  I always have felt, I can't for certainty say, that low frequencies may make you feel nausea. It's very hard, actually, for us to hear low frequencies, because there are not, perhaps, enough equipments that can produce them. But if you have a subwoofer that can produce low frequencies, around four or five hertz…

• 00:43:19

  And actually, they made them for the Coast Guard, for the US Coast Guard. They were for ship-to-ship comms, if the communications went down, they were for ship-to-ship comms. Actually, I own loads of them. I've got loads of them. I own loads of them. I've got loads of them. I think we use them a lot for installations…

• 00:50:21

  Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. minted or even and a more extreme and direct case what we talked about with the tortured and Guantanamo where they're just blasting these sounds it's still not physical violence that's it's not assault or with ultrasonic frequencies there's something we can't hear but then there's…

• 01:03:11

  Thanks, guys. I think we're all actually anxious to go. And experience the installation. So, I want to take the moment. Yes. I want to take a moment to also thank the Qualcomm Institute staff, specifically Trish Stone, who's done a lot of management work for this installation to happen. And thank you to Toby and John…