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• 00:00:00

  Okay, so third seminar on sound unsound today with Steve Goodman. I'm very happy to have you here. And Steve Goodman is an artist, curator, writer and electronic musician. His book Sonic Warfare, Sound of Affect and the Ecology of Fear was published by MIT Press in 2009. In 2019, as a member of Audent, he co-edited…

• 00:23:03

  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Noise, noise, noise. The greatest single disease vector of civilization. Okay, this is weird. Sorry about that. Okay. Noise, noise, noise. The greatest single disease vector of civilization. In April 2020, Marcus Buehler, a musician and scientist at MIT, created a model…

• 00:39:15

  I can't disappear from space station do you read? techno also has its own viral mythology in the sonic fiction of Detroit techno outfit underground resistance you are we find one of the most explicit hypostasional systems outlining an evolution of rhythmic genetic strains in which colonialism is recast in a sweeping…

• 00:58:39

  A number of these tunes, for instance, the sequence of notes played on a piano infect the listener's mind, using it as a vehicle to get out of the meme pool. Where tunes can then compete for survival. Once the evolutionary algorithm runs, all that follows happens at the expense of other less contagious tunes…

• 01:20:30

  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. of high frequency nature, it sort of travels far. So it means that it's got like a more, I'm not sort of a sound theorist, but it's got more sort of acoustic potential to kind…

• 01:44:06

  In a sense. And if I take that text as a kind of assemblage of different kinds of audio virology, some more politically engaged with subversive potentials, it made me think about this other 1990s text, which is The Ring by the Japanese author Suzuki Koji. I think most of us know it as a film, the blockbuster horror…

• 02:05:52

  Also has a positive role. Also has a positive role. Also has a positive role. Also has a positive role. Also has a positive role. Also has a positive role. bodies intimately entangled breathing the same air you know so we share we already share a lot with the virus but there's something if you just bracket the idea…

• 02:29:24

  That's good. As always, if you have any questions, I'm reachable by email and I'll try to get back as quick as I can. And one asked, can we keep the convo going elsewhere? Well, I'm not sure if I can just let this window be open. I can do that. I'll stop the recording now, at least.