Check your kid’s iPod tonight, parents: sonic i-Dosing is apparently threatening the nation’s youth, leading impressionable teens down a dangerous path towards harder drugs (La Monte Young? Francisco López? Bob Marley?).
Though this NPR report seems to dispel the notion that sound can produce a digital high on par with ingested chemicals, parents viewing the evening news clip posted below about these aural drugs (scary footage discovered via @nightafternight) are being advised to be vigilant! (Internet commenters, however, suspect that the whole affair is little more than one of those
sneaky teen plots to make adults look like fools, on par with wolf packs.)
Now, ready to get high? The Huffington Post helpfully included a link to the example embedded below in their report, though apparently it’s just a taster. The good shit is not free.
It is possible to use tones for healing, and for equivalents of other modalities.
Some of you may remember that Royal Rife went to jail for a curing cancer with sound waves. Actually he could effect cures in this way and the medical establishment did not like it.
So how would these sound files be less effective? I have no idea.
Are they habit forming? I am not sure, but I rather doubt it. The idea of the antibiotic analogs is they won’t kill the flora in your gut.
This is a fascinating field, and one whose time has come.
Maybe it’s all just a gateway drug for Beethoven, which is really the hard stuff: like Cavatina, Heiliger Dankgesang, and the big one, Grosse Fugue. It’s highly addictive, and is bound to cause physical reactions that last for a long time: good ones if the music is played well, and horrible ones if it is not.
Digitized versions of the pitches don’t work: you need to at least have a recording of the real thing.
Anyone old enough to remember the Yippie rumor that “smoking banana peels gets you high”? In 1967 or so, I threw a peel in the hot oven just to piss off my old man. That’s the only altered state it managed to induce.
If there is a new drug on the horizon, the US Army is surely conducting experiments on it right now. Can you question your source in the Army?
Molly whispers: I will see what I can find out
Wow.
Just…. wow.
So, people… do you think Alvin Lucier’s sales will spike? How about Phill Niblock? I should send this to Lovely and XI and see if we can come up with a marketing campaign…
Wow.