That's mega cool. I want to use those sounds on an album. That'd be awesome.

Since I suspect that these sounds involve frequencies outside the range of which a CD is capable, I wonder what sort of equipment (besides, apparently, a large pipe) is needed to produce infrasound?

'Cause this year's halloween is going to be something else if I can find out!

P, all you need is a "storm, seasonal wind, weather pattern or some types of earthquakes." Or an elephant. Don't you have any of those items down in Texas?

man, there's GOTTA be a way to get the frequencies! That would be the ultimate mood maker hehe.

There was a series of detective novels for boys, Alfred Hitchcock's Three Investigators. The first novel in the series, I think, Secret of Terror Castle turned on exactly this "brown note" idea, offering a physiological explanation for unusual emotional reactions.

Phil, at the concert, do you think the scientists somehow amplified the brown note? If they did, I would think there's a way for it to be recorded.

and from reading the article, the scientists somehow laced recorded music with it. hmmm

And everyone pooped.

No one has addressed the terrorist danger of the brown note. Consider South Park 317-The Brown Note. An international live broadcast student recorder concert [organized by Yoko Ono and conducted by Kenny G-truly a hellish combo] takes a bad turn when the boys replace the sheet music to include the famous brown note that causes uncontrollable bowel release.

A terrifying thought, certainly. Just think of the the reverberating international political repercussions [to say nothing of the dry cleaning bills] if Bin Laden were to sabotage, say, a Garth Brooks performance during a Super Bowl halftime show with an inclusion of The Brown Note in everyone's sheet music. It's really too horrifying to contemplate.

Water pressure shot to hell due to the simultaneous flushing - grim indeed.

Yes, it would be an attack on the infrastructure of water supply, for starters, what with the flushing and the washers and showers.

There was an interview about this on As It Happens (check cbc.ca) last night with the researchers on this.

What they used is PVC sewer pipe. You use harmonic frequency calculations (diameter x length, factoring in air pressure to figure out how many times per second a piston has to move in the tube to produce a specific frequency)

What I find interesting is the overall sound environment. With the blackout a couple of weeks ago, one of the main things I noticed was how quiet it was, one of the best sleeps I've had in a while.

Plus, one thing to consider, the Earth actually has a frequency, the entire planet vibrates at a really low note.

The whole topic resonates, so to speak, and I love the accents on "As It Happens" (we get an abbreviated version down here), where they sound like a bunch of fucking Canadians.

hint: don't go to Newfoundland.

Q: What's black and blue and floats in the bay?
A: a mainlander telling a newfie joke.

You can actually get most of CBC radio programming via the web, bigger, longer and uncut.

You should check out the Saturday show "Groove Shinney", recently, they've been running a "Name that Cowbell" contest.

Cowbells, in pop songs. They give you an excerpt, you have to name the song.

Indeed, more cowbell!!!

GOTTA have more cowbell

Could a cowbell be engineered to produce The Brown Note?

It would have to be like the Goose at Wawa, or the Big Nickel in Sudbury, really big.

Could a cowbell be engineered to produce The Brown Note?

My math skills are poor, but, you would have to have a structure, which when struck would produce a sub 20 hz note. Probably brass couldn't do it. And I doubt a cowbell shape enlarged could have the correct harmonic shape.

I know, let's call Frank Gherey!

Actually, this is going in the wrong direction. What research is there into notes and frequencies which produce happiness and joy (I suspect they are all contained in "Louie Louie" or "Cretin Hop".

...but...but... cowbell makes me happy.

I sense a market here .. a cowbell, with the logo "happy", which you clang to make you happy.

Give me a week, and check out my auction on ebay. A cowbell which will make you happy. Trust Me! (tm)

of course where all of this is related to is the riddle:

Q: what's brown and rings?

A: a dung bell

thank you, I'll be here all this week, and don't forget to tip the waitress.

Does anybody know what note(A#, B nateral, Eb) it is. Because if you record a tone and slow it down it might work.

Good question - I don't know.

I dont know but...I think...I just shat myself...

And finally, what you've all been waiting for...

After much research and struggle with a long length of pipe in a recording studio, a few audio recording tech's who messed up their pants
I am proud to bring you.. An MP3 of THE BROWN NOTE

http://www.sfisux.com/brownnote.htm

10hz

Watch your woofer on your stereo.

No, No, No. The so-called "brown note" is actually a song, slowed down by a factor of 51, into the infrasonic part of the frequency spectrum. It's "I Love the Nightlife" by Alicia Bridges. It seems that the first few notes of the first verse are enough to cause severe disorientation, nausea, dizziness, and even paranoia. It's not that amazing really, since the same thing happens at normal speeds.

Big George, maybe there is something wrong with my system but all I heard was a very soft pulse - is there something else there?

I really hope no hostile aliens get wind of any of this: if they hovered over the earth and made everyone poop at once, we would be shit out of luck.

Duane - I love a challenge. I just chucked that song into a sound editor and it sounds like some sort of whale/dolphin noises.. Hahahah

Eric, it's a pitched note at 10hz. Sound is just air vibrating, low notes are air vibrating slower, high notes are air vibrating faster.

Big George, I hope you're not permanently screwed up from that experience. It took me years to recover, but I'm just fine now....HAHAHAAHAHA...ggrllr ...splootch! Drool....unnnghh...

Oh, sorry. Really, I'm fine.

arg let the recording engineer explain. The "brown note" as it is called is a -4hz frequency amplified at 140db so if you were wanting to construct this device, good luck cause a subsonic frequency at that db range would take more amps than you can fathom to generate that frequency at that db range. Heres some food for thought. Every organ in your body operates operates on a frequency. Example your bowels at -4hz. An engineer I met a while back said that he helped work on a gun that shoots sound at a person and will stop their heart. I guess its more humane than bullets. Progress is great.

Thanks Joe, fascinating and disconcerting. It's a good thing these devices are impractical due to the db requirements. The implications of a city-wide brown note attack are too smelly to contemplate.

sry but thats wrong. The brown note is a 7 hz tone. Normal sound systems arent able to play a sound in that frequency range ...

A similar experiment was carried out my the delightfully disturbed Gasper Noe in his Mondo Award 2003 winner Irreversible. The first twenty minutes of the film incorporate a truly nauseating bass rumble which, complete with the woozy camerawork and general carnage onscreen, creates a pretty near unbearable effect. the soundtrack CD is a vailable (and was crafted by those fools known as The Daft Punk), but i haven't heard it so can't comment on wether or not this bass frequency is repeated on such. It is the same frequency, incidently, that has been played by riot police in order to disband violent gatherings and so on, with the hooligans and such. I later watched the film at my fiancee's, and had the sound down as she was sleeping. The effect was incredibly different, and no-where near as sickening.

Fascinating Duke, the filmmakers are perverse. People generally don't realize how powerful sound is.

Many years ago I saw a PBS special on
"Weaponry Of The 20th Century". The most
fascinating part was a tank like device
the French have been developing.Using
sound they blew a house apart. I wonder
if this was the "Brown Note"? Anybody
have any input on this???

Eric, i'm not sure if i agree with Noe's actions on a moral level, but on some other level, one to do with the dementia required to inflict that kind of thing on an audience, you have to give him his due i guess. Certainly i don't think i have experienced anything like it,that kind of pure barbarity flinging across the speakers as much as the screen, and i was watching it at home on DVD. imagine the poor sods who went to see it at the theatre, complete with booming sound systems. Those crazy frenches man. As an exploitation gimmick, tho, it was inspired.

Wherever he may be, William Castle must
be looking on and smiling in approval.

oh, and incidently, in relation to Jim's comments up above about the earth having a frequency and so on, one of the most inriguing pieces of "music" i encountered over the last while, back when my site was still at http://mondoirlando.blogspot.com was a piece that took the sound frequencies of 9-11 and amplified them and so on. The reason i put the old adress up there, is becuase if you scroll down it you'll see a post by the name of "The Sound Of Nightmares" or something, which has a link to an extract of the piece courtesy of The Guardian (not sure if the link still works. I'm sure it does.) The extract was all i managed to listen to, although digital radio station Resonance FM were broadcasting the piece in its 41 minute entirity that sunday at midnight. What i did hear was astounding. It sounded like the bowels of hell were pouring forth or some shit. Apparently when the attack occured, it gave off a sound like tuning forks being struck. really intriguing, but not something i really want to spend 41 minutes in the company of. Or 4, for that matter.

HW, yeah, everythng about it screams William Castle lol, jsut with replacing the cranky sets and skeletons with, y'know, fire-extinguisher violence and stuff.

Argh, sorry, last one. Just a final ammendment on the william castle thing. Noe's earlier film (his debut i believe), I Stand Alone, had a section in the middle where a warning came up on screen about the brutal nature of the scene about to be shown, and gave the audience 30 seconds to decide whether or not to stay. lol. They might dress it up with arthouse pretentions, but these latest indie type things like this and Todd Slondz' Happiness are pure Castle gimmickry given "respectable" surroundings. Bravo, i say. Incidentally, Noe admits that Irreversible is pure exploitation. It's cranks like The Duke who start yelling "Masterpiece" at it.

I was mainly thinking of the angles that
the exploitation gimmick of the "Brown
Note" might take in Castles hands. Like
perhaps passing out diapers in the lobby
or having an isolated sitting area for people who may have shat themselves so
that others may laugh at them or perhaps
selling Dry Cleaning insurance and so on
and so on............

ha! Yeah. The Tingler indeed. Total Film has a great article in it this month, in fact, about the ten greatest gimmicks in movie marketing history. Psycho is in there and stuff like that, but i think my favourite is still Castle's insurance policy in case anyone dies of fright. They didn't mention John Waters' Smell-O-Vision for Polyester tho.
Anyway, back to the brown note. Sorry to get off topic.
There were a group of musicians around a couple years back who used the brown note in every release. Made me shit my guts asunder. N-Sync, i think they were called.

I think you will find that the so called brown note excists at a frequency of 14Hz (+ or - 2 depending on food consumed), it is enirely possible to record this sound using a 24/96 sound card, the only problem is most speakers can not produce this frequency (no not even your mates soundlab 18" sub woofer in a ported and tuned enclosure) the only way i can see of creating this is to use solenoids in a flexible floor, incedently the clitoris responds to a frequency of between 80 and 90Hz

thereby, thank Providence, maintaining the separation of church and state, so to speak

I work for a production company and we actually went "fishing" for the brown note last year. We set up 24 speaker cabinets each with 2 18" 1000 watt drivers in them then powered it with 51,200 watts. Plugged in my handy little frequency sweeper and went fishing. We found that we felt the wierdest right around 8 hz @ 148 db @ 1 meter. I think the only reason I was feeling a little strange was because my eyeballs were vibrating in my head giving me motion sickness.

i shat myself

achely searched 4 like n hour and found the brown note is ninty-two cent below the lowest octave of E-flat.. the only part i understand in that it the word ninty-two and E-flat, any 1 got any ideas how this can be used ^o) ?

it can be used to end the scourge of constipation once and for all

Ahhh, the brown town, Cartman and Kenny's search resulted in it's discovery.

I was at a concert once by a band called Meshuggah, and they just about got it, their detuned 8 string guitars gcreated such an intestine rumbling, I nearly couldn't stay..... Methinks I've said too much....

FUCK I FOUND IT I FOUND IT SHIT !!!! ILE GIVE U THE LINKS THERES A PROG < I GOT A CREATIVE 5.1 SUB AND SHI !!!!! I DONE IT I PLAYED AT 7 HZ I DIDNT SHIT MYSELF COZ I STOPPED IT SO FAST BUT I FEEL HIGH OMG !!! I ALMOST FUKIN PASSED OU MY LEGS R NUM IM SERIOUS GUYS SHIT !!!!!! IT REALY WORKS ON ORDINARY SUBS HERES THE LINKS.... FUCK! !! http://www.fleximusic.com/waveditor/overview.htm , download it and instal, run the program, then import a song, if u cnt , go 2 the site it tells u 2 download lame.exe , ule find it, instal it then import a tune, go on... the lil thing at the top wit the wobly lines above that looks like a ruler then click Other HZ and set it to 7hz it wil say sumins rong or sumin, then click play all at the bottom wit music and sub full
...unbelievable

the Holy Grail! congrats

omg man that hurts my stomach dont do that... omg it hurts so much

Ah - empirical evidence

this is one of my favorite evergreen, er, everbrown, posts

A Cd is only capeable of recording from 20hz to 20khz (the human hearing range) some methods can go higher with higher sample rates but not the gineric cd. Second of all you need a specialized speaker that can handle the wave length of 7 hz wich would be huge. i believe the british used a device such as this for riot control. he he. noch.

cud sum1 sho me how 2 do it in plain english plz its not working 4 me plz

i mean i got teh software but it aint working

hello anyone here?
):

hello?

[stupid comment deleted]

On the Internet, no one can hear you scream

do u no how 2 do it? if so plz tell me

Nope - you don't have the security clearance - watch the next episode of "24"

plz

ill do whatever i can that dosnt give you acsess to my computer

plz

pleeeeaasssseeee

come on plzzzzzzz

im beggin ya here

information this senstive can only passed on to people who spell well

Well, it seems pretty easy - import any song into the program. Then just change the frequency for the sound to 7 Hz.

Technically, I doubt this would work because the best subwoofers have a basshorn about 30Hz, and most are higher - that means the lower frequencies will be inaudible. For real low frequencies, you need a bass shaker like those from Aura. You would need to sit real close and also make an appointment with a doctor BEFORE you try these stunts.

so yer saying that instead of 7Hz it should be turned to 30Hz

Again, you are not cleared for this information - the Men In Black will be visiting you soon.

oooooookay...

you didn't mention the Depends

ATTN:Tonight on "The Discovery Channel"
at 9:00 PM PST there will be a special
on "Myth Busters"(great show BTW)about
"The Brown Note".

thanks HW! but I wouldn't watch with the sound on - too dangerous

hmm, American Idol broadcast at the exact same time as The Brown Note - coinkydink? I wonder.

"American Idol" affects me like a Brown
Note.

What notes played together can make the brown note. I had it writen down years ago but lost it.....

Just to clear this for you, if you make your 'brown note' recordings into MP3s then it'll get cut off anyway, mp3s compress by cutting everything that naturally can't be heard, including everything under 20hz.

I can't believe how many idiots can't seem to figure out that YOU CAN'T REPRODUCE THIS ON YOUR PC. I know approximately dick about sound waves and whatnot, yet this is so very clear to me! What are you not comprehending? In the words of Mr. Slave "Jesus Christ!"

This was the most educational text my school internet has been used to look up. Thankyou.

As MP3 no it won't work. as an .ogg file, it does. I only have creative 5.1 speakers, but when using Audacity with a rap song (black eyed peas - pump it), i dropped the frequency to 7 Hz, then saved as .ogg, played it back. didn't exactly shit myself, but i did feel extremely light headed and my heart was pounding, as well as my stomach bothering me somewhat.

is there any way to re-create it on a mac- ibook?

While you can possibly CREATE the sound on a computer, the fact is you're going to need some pretty awesome subwoofers to produce it at a volume which will actually affect anything. the likelihood that your computer will play it back with all necessary components, or that you will be able to reproduce it on transportable media is very slim.

it will probably take a fleet of alien spacecraft to actually send it amplified through the air

How do you get the brown note?

perhaps read this thread

Once upon a time.... what about the black note. In ages gone by, the great mystics new the power of sound. The power to control, the power to pursuad, and the power to anniliate in a manner that could not be traced. Scary it may be.

it works on some but just causes emense pain on others and any site that offers the sound was shut down. why , becouse people are affraid

there is also the matter of conveying the sound - it would destroy almost any equipment through which it was transmitted

Listen to

"Aphex Twin - Smojphace EP"
tracks 2 and 3 (ktpa1 and ktpa2) - titles

both of these give me the chills at certain points (in addition to a headache)
feels like going to a dentist... horrible sounds
pretty crazy

when i played the brown note my bouls relased and i defaced in my pants causing fecial matter to get on my balls witch gave me shitty nuts.and they smelled for a month.

LOL
I was searching for Brown Tone - Eddie Van Halen's guitar tone.
And look where I am - in deep brown shit.

does any1 have the brown note???

i got great downloadable bass site for 40hz

I should let you all know that you can reproduce the brown note with a pair of professional subwoofers. A lot of loudspeakers that specify their frequency range are at the db input level of -3db to 0db. If you took about 30db off of the input level, the subwoofers range will be incredibly increased. Try inputting the note at about -30db to -40db and THEN see what happens.

Now creating the frequency? That's a different matter... It's a case of trial and error.


Please note that if you want to try these stunts please consult your doctor first and have your doctor present when you attempt this stuff.

NO shit !

I just read about this in Quirkology. It's a psychology book written by Richard Wiseman, who took part in this experiment. It's pretty interesting.