Steve GoodmanThinkers

Affect has the ability of one entity to change another from a distance. It is vibrational, an ecology of movements and rest, speeds and slownesses, the potential of entities to affect and be affected.

A Bad vibe is an instance where sound helps produce an immersive atmosphere or ambience of fear and dread.

The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards .. . so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the Mandolin.

Noise is seen as intrinsically radical, as that which lies outside music, that which threatens music from without, rejuvenating it, giving it the energy to do anything new.

Noise music is the use of noise, or disorganized sound, as a weapon, a code bomb launched by those practitioner-theorists who are angry at the complacency or conservativeness of a certain hierarchal stratification of audio-social matter.

The Sonic is a phenomenon of contact and displays, through an array of autonomic responses, a whole spectrum of affective powers.

Sonic warfare is the use of force, both seductive and violent, abstract and physical, via a range of acoustic machines (biotechnical, social, cultural, artistic, conceptual), to modulate the physical, affective, and libidinal dynamics of populations, of bodies, of crowds.