Infrasound shown to give people the willies:British scientists have shown in a controlled experiment that the extreme bass sound known as infrasound produces a range of bizarre effects in people including anxiety, extreme sorrow and chills — supporting popular suggestions of a link between infrasound and strange sensations.…
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— go to most recent comments26 - Big George
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.
27 - duane
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.
28 - Eric Olsen
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.
29 - Big George
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.
30 - duane
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.
31 - Joe
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.
32 - Eric Olsen
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.
33 - n0tr4ce
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 ...
34 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
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.
35 - Eric Olsen
Fascinating Duke, the filmmakers are perverse. People generally don't realize how powerful sound is.
36 - HW Saxton Jr.
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???
37 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
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.
38 - HW Saxton Jr.
Wherever he may be, William Castle must
be looking on and smiling in approval.
39 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
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.
40 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
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.
41 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
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.
42 - HW Saxton Jr.
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............
43 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
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.
44 - Gordie
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
45 - Eric Olsen
thereby, thank Providence, maintaining the separation of church and state, so to speak
46 - soundguy
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.
47 - mike
i shat myself
48 - Cuplex
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) ?
49 - Eric Olsen
it can be used to end the scourge of constipation once and for all
50 - Chris
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....
51 - CUPLEX
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
52 - Eric Olsen
the Holy Grail! congrats
53 - josh
omg man that hurts my stomach dont do that... omg it hurts so much
54 - Aaman
Ah - empirical evidence
55 - Eric Olsen
this is one of my favorite evergreen, er, everbrown, posts
56 - jake
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.
57 - Joe Mama
cud sum1 sho me how 2 do it in plain english plz its not working 4 me plz
58 - Joe Mama
i mean i got teh software but it aint working
59 - Joe Mama
hello anyone here?
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60 - Joe Mama
hello?
61 - Joe Mama
[stupid comment deleted]
62 - Aaman
On the Internet, no one can hear you scream
63 - Joe Mama
do u no how 2 do it? if so plz tell me
64 - Aaman
Nope - you don't have the security clearance - watch the next episode of "24"
65 - Joe Mama
plz
66 - Joe Mama
ill do whatever i can that dosnt give you acsess to my computer
67 - Joe Mama
plz
68 - Joe Mama
pleeeeaasssseeee
69 - Joe Mama
come on plzzzzzzz
70 - Joe Mama
im beggin ya here
71 - Eric Olsen
information this senstive can only passed on to people who spell well
72 - Aaman
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.
73 - Joe Mama
so yer saying that instead of 7Hz it should be turned to 30Hz
74 - Aaman
Again, you are not cleared for this information - the Men In Black will be visiting you soon.
75 - Joe Mama
oooooookay...