Subsonic Death Rays - KLF?

[List, Christopher]

This sounds rather like one of the notorious KLF hoaxes pulled by
getting a news paper article printed about a huge sonic death machine or
something at their compound in the English country side. I read the
story a while ago, and am not too clear on the facts. You can find the
story somewhere around on the net.

- CList

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Sean Costello [SMTP:costello at seanet.com]
> Sent:	Sunday, January 17, 1999 7:29 PM
> To:	Magnus Danielson
> Cc:	tpaddock at seanet.com; synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl
> Subject:	Subsonic Death Rays (was Re: day job)
> 
> Speaking of which, does anyone on this list know anything about the
> subsonic death ray that France supposedly developed?  This is the sort
> of weird rumor that tends to be circulated among insane musician
> circles, so I figured someone on this list might know about it. :) It
> might actually have been a real item; it supposedly generated a highly
> directional beam of sound at an extremely high amplitude, around 7 Hz
> -
> the "resonant frequency of the body," so as to turn your innards to
> jello.  If such a device was actually developed, my guess would be
> that
> it worked by using ultrasonic sound, and relying on the beat frequency
> between two sound sources.  Example: use two ultra-powerful tweeter
> horns, one at 100,000 Hz, one at 100,007 Hz.  
> 
> Sean Costello
> 
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