[sdiy] sXeXmXi ot: loud speaker for synths

[Colin Hinz]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Dave Krooshof wrote of sonic warfare:

> Don't forget you need to take the room into account here.
> Either it wants to resonate on a bass frequency, or...
>
> If you hit it for some time in it's resonance frequency, you
> do not need to produce all the energy at once, but you can
> build up the amplitude over time. This way, you will surely
> manage to damage the entire block, and they'll never know what
> hit them.
>
> There's a famous club here in the Hague (.nl) called "Het Paard"
> and it recently underwent a major reconstruction, because they
> needed to have more capacity (audiencewise).
> Another famous project in the Hague is the tramtunnel that keeps
> being flooded and is years overdue. The old Paard suffered
> heavily from drilling the tunnel. Inches wide cracks ran down
> the walls. The tunnel still isn't finished, the Paard is, though.
>
> Before the Paard was closed for a few years to do the work,
> they organised a big party. An artist placed a dozen unbalanced
> washing machine motors, screwed them to the walls where the iron
> wall-anchors were, and tuned them with variacs so that the walls,
> and finally the whole building, was vibrating. Brrrrrrrr...
> The cracks got A LOT bigger. A LOT.

Wow, sounds like a team-up between Mark Pauline and Einstürzende
Neubauten. I wish I were there.....sounds like there weren't any
casualties!!

- Colin Hinz
  Toronto, Canada