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ChristopherBlackwell
Music as weapons of war and torture
Fri Jun 8, 2012 6:33pm
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Okay folks, now a chilling thought, what kind of music could the government use to break you down and drive you insane? In my case I was thinking polka music, those mindless teeny bopper love songs and perhaps achy breaky western music.

What would break you down?

Music as a weapon of war
by Christopher Cerf

OPINIONS JUN. 09, 2012 - 06:12AM JST

Award-winning “Sesame Street” songwriter Christopher Cerf discusses what it was like to learn that his music was used to torture U.S. detainees in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/opinions/view/music-as-a-weapon-of-war?utm_campaign=jt_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=jt_newsletter_2012-06-09_AM

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Abominable, but — greenman, Mon Jun 11 4:32pm

...it reminds me of an episode of a very funny British comedy from the '80s called A Very Peculiar Practice. There were serious undertones (pun intended) in the episode "Bad Vibrations," which had to ... more
Oh Oh Oh! I Know I Know!!! — PureStevil, Mon Jun 11 8:07am

This one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHy7DGLTt8g
Actually, that might be a realistic pattern in the stars ... — Clawson, Tue Jun 12 10:01am

...but few composers would want to copy the random moise of machinery operating. Sometimes it is done for special effect as a small part of some larger background for a stage performance.
To me, music is mostly just noise... — macsj, Sat Jun 9 11:48pm

...and using noise for torture is nothing new and unique.
Wow. I am sorry for you — Truthteller, Sun Jun 10 11:12am

you don't know what you are missing.
Explaining color to a blind man... — macsj, Sun Jun 10 5:33pm

...is the same as explaining sound to the deaf. Generally useless, but that never stops people from trying to explain it or their feeling sorry for me. Also being red/green color blind does not stop... more
Thanks for clarifying... — Truthteller, Mon Jun 11 7:30am

as I did not understand you to say you are deaf. Please accept my apologies.
I don't smell much of anything any more — ChristopherBlackwell, Sun Jun 10 6:12pm

macsj, My sense of smell is all but gone. I don't even smell the incense I use in my ceremonies, frankincense. Now the upside is I miss some bad smells. I am progressively more deaf. So I don't hear... more
It's just one of those things — Truthteller, Mon Jun 11 7:31am

I do my best work with music playing and have all my life. Diff'rent strokes, I guess. :)
Paradise lost - Pure HELL - Nonstop forever and ever and ... — Clawson, Sat Jun 9 11:54am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlY-guWIEvI
This would do me in.. — Tinfoil, Sat Jun 9 10:09am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJFEVAbTzxo
Yeah, J-Pop is pretty hard to take. — Poppet, Sun Jun 10 7:39pm

Not fond of J-Pop , but a lot of folks arfe probably more likely to gouge out their ears over dubstep . And of course there's always extreme noise, like Merzbow . Music as weapon? Oh, I'm just... more
And there are always the classics — greenman, Wed Jun 13 5:25pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYtzNl48F60 ;)
Anything by Rush. Most definlitely the most overrated band. (nm — KR, Fri Jun 8 6:52pm

LOL! — greenman, Wed Jun 13 5:27pm

My wife would physically kill you for that commment. But I have to agree that, especially in earlier albums, Geddy Lee was perhaps the worst rock vocalist I've ever heard. Like a fingernail on a... more
Too many big words? — Glenn, Mon Jun 11 7:26pm

I'll stack Rush lyrics against anything you want to put up, intellectual maturity-wise 8^p
Mediocre musicians, nerdy lyrics, overall boring. (nm) — KR, Wed Jun 13 12:20pm

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