Sonic Warfare is still a main reference for many of us around here. Now more than ever, Steve Goodman’s theories are relevant, as the audiovisual machine expands dramatically. Urbanomic will be releasing (March) a new Goodman’s text entitled “Notes on the Third Ear” along with Angus Carlyle’s Phantom Lure (!), in their beautiful K-Pulp Switch series.
Sonic Acts has published an article extracted from Goodman’s book, entitled “Chronic Sonics”, which was also published in their ECOES #8 magazine.
“How does the future seep in through the ears? Environments sensed and scanned, threats estimated, predictions made, impacts averted, escape routes detected, conflicts pre-empted, and precipitated. Uncertain ambiences processed anxiously as danger – the highly strung temporality of threat, poised at breaking point, awaiting arrival, brimming with potential energy to be rechannelled, recycled. Sometimes, with a decoy, an after-effect becomes autonomous as an environment and virtualises, rendering its power continuous with minimal effort. An atmosphere which envelops cognitive and somatic states.”
