“Keeping Yourself Alive” Album cover

 A “Know Thyself” song by “Queen”

This thing ‘ silent sound’ is a strange thing. It may be silent but it is still gets through. There is hearing sound and there is silent sound. Our hearing range (20Hz to 20Khz) is ‘Subway’ sandwiched between the silent sound ranges of Infrasound and Ultrasound. I am interested in that part of the natural process that sneaks in into our bodies, invited at anytime you feel like it – but can cause harm. It comes in through not the outer or middle ear, but through the inner ear as shown in diagram above. I think in an unadultrated space through the naturally evolutionary process in a naturally clean environment there is a place for them in terms of us silently communicating with one another. But in today’s new world of convenient living electro pollution of the space we live in has aloowed these sound of different frequencies to come uninvited yet unstoppable due to lack of physiological ‘firewalls’ to keep us safe – they can cause havoc to the metabolic functions of the body. It seems that ‘us’ in trying to duplicate the natural worlds with our inventions have not only duplicated the source of these natural Rhytmns but also are able to control the use of certain undesirable frequencies for a focused prolonged use to disrupt. In previous articles I have shown how the electromagnetic spectrum can be used to ‘hack’ into the mind to monitor thinking in ‘speak thinking’. This is how sound, a simple pressure wave that we use everyday to communicate with each other through speaking, can actually cause disease, mood fluctuations, sleep disturbances when they enter the body in the infrasound (low frequency) and ultrasound (high frequency) ranges.

First as in Em radiation, lets see again where the brain sits in terms of operating frequencies. If it is going to affect the brain it needs to operative in these frequencies. There is also the resonant and operating frequencies of the body tissues that needs to be looked into.

BETA waves – when we are active, our minds function at the beta level which is measured as being 14-20 Hz. ALPHA waves – when we relax 8-13 Hz. and similar to’ The Schumann resonances’ peak at 7.86Hz THETA waves – this is a deep sleep level of brain wave activity at 5 – 7 Hz. DELTA waves – the deepest of the brain wave frequencies at 1-4Hz – drug induced sleep with anesthetics. First ‘sightings’ I would think that infrasound if it is to affect the brain need to signal it at these frequencies. So what can infrasound do to the phsiological responses of a person if it was stimulated by an infrasound pressure wave.

summary: Studies show the different ways in which infrasound affects the human body. As infrasound pitches, or cycles per second, decrease, deadly effects on the body increase. Infrasound disrupts the normal functioning of the middle and inner ear, leading to nausea, imbalance, impaired equilibrium, immobilization, and disorientation. Exposure to even mild doses of infrasound can lead to illness. Increased intensities of infrasound can result in death. These are a few examples of low frequency (below 500 Hz) and infrasound (below 20 Hz.) levels and their effects:

12 Cycles Per Second (Hz) – Walt Disney and his artist accidentally experienced infrasound on one occasion. A cartoon sound effect was slowed from 60 cycles per second to 12 cycles per second via a tape-editing machine and was amplified through the theater system. The resulting tone, though brief in duration, produced in the entire crowd nausea that lingered for several days.

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100 Cycles Per Second (Hz) – At this level, a person experiences irritation, “mild nausea, giddiness, skin flushing, and body tingling.” Following this, a person undergoes “vertigo, anxiety, extreme fatigue, throat pressure, and respiratory dysfunction.” (source; the Sonic Weapon of Vladimir Gavreau, by Gerry Vassilatos)

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60 – 73 Cycles Per Second (Hz) – “coughing, severe sternal pressure, choking, excessive salivation, extreme swallowing pains, inability to breathe, headache, and abdominal pain” were present. In the post exposure phase, test subjects continued to cough, exhibit fatigue, and have skin flushing for up to four hours. (Source – THE SONIC WEAPON OF VLADIMIR GAVREAU, by Gerry Vassilatos)

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. WALL CURRENT – In the United States, wall current is 60 cycles per second (Hz). In Europe, the wall current is 50 cycles per second. Since European current has a lower cycle, an observer can actually see light bulbs slightly flicker.

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. 43 – 73 Cycles Per Second (Hz) – lack of visual acuity, IQ scores fall to 77% of normal, distortion of spatial orientation, poor muscular coordination, loss of equilibrium, slurred speech, and blackout.

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1 – 10 Cycles Per Second (Hz) – “Lethal infrasonic pitch lies in the 7 cycle range. Small amplitude increases affect human behavior in this range. Intellectual activity is first inhibited, blocked, and then destroyed. As the amplitude is increased, several disconcerting responses have been noted. These responses begin a complete neurological interference. The action of the medulla is physiologically blocked, its autonomic functions cease.” (source; the Sonic Weapon of Vladimir Gavreau, by Gerry Vassilatos)

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 50 – 100 Cycles Per Second (Hz) – at 150 dB and higher, “intolerable sensations in the chest and thoracic region can be produced – even with the ears protected. Other physiological changes that can occur include chest all vibration and some respiratory rhythm changes in human subjects, together with hypopharyngeal fullness (gagging). The frequency range between 50 and 100 Hz also produces mild nausea and giddiness at levels of 150 – 155 dB, at which point subjective tolerance is reached. At 150 to 155 dB (0.63 to 1.1 kPA), respiration-related effects include substernal discomfort, coughing, severe substernal pressure, choking respiration, and hypopharyngeal discomfort.” (source; ‘Acoustic Trauma: Bioeffects of Sound,’ by Alex Davies)

7 Cycles Per Second (Hz) – The most profound effects at this infrasonic level occur here. Seven Hz “corresponds with the median alpha-rhythm frequencies of the brain. It is also commonly alleged that this is the resonant frequency of the body’s organs and hence organ rupture and death can occur at high-intensity exposures.” (source; ‘Acoustic Trauma: Bioeffects of Sound,’ by Alex Davies)

Scientific Applications and Research Associates (SARA) – This agency’s alleged infrasound research showed, “infrasound at 110 – 130 dB would cause intestinal pain and severe nausea. Extreme levels of annoyance or distraction would result from minutes of exposure to levels 90 to 120 dB at low frequencies (5 to 200 Hz), strong physical trauma and damage to tissues at 140 – 150 dB, and instantaneous blastwave type trauma at above 170 dB. At low frequencies, resonance’s in the body would cause hemorrhage and spasm/ in the mid-audio range (0.5 to 2.5 kHz), resonance’s in the air cavities of the body would cause nerve irritation, tissue trauma and heating; high audio and ultrasound frequencies (5 to 30 kHz) would cause heating up to lethal body temperatures, tissue burns, and dehydration; and at high frequencies, or with short pulses,                           bubbles would form from cavitation and micro-lesions in tissue would evolve.” (source; ‘Acoustic Trauma: Bioeffects of Sound,’ by Alex Davies)

Infrasound Toxicological Summary, November 2001 – “When male volunteers were exposed to simulated industrial infrasound of 5 and 10 Hz and levels of 100 and 135 dB for 15 minutes, feelings of fatigue, apathy, and depression, pressure in the ears, loss of concentration, drowsiness, and vibration of internal organs were reported. In addition, effects were found in the central nervous system, the cardiovascular system, and the respiratory system. Synchronization phenomena were enhanced in the left hemisphere. Visual motor responses to stimuli were prolonged, and the strength of the effect was reduced. Heart rate was increased during the initial minutes of exposure. Depression of the encephalic hemodynamics with decreased venous flow from the skull cavity was observed. Heart muscle contraction strength was reduced. Respiration rate was significantly reduced after the first minute of exposure.”

 The U. S. Navy has an anti-submarine device called Low Frequency Active (LFA) sonar. It emits 240 dB. Damage was possibly done to whales and dolphins, causing them to beach. Whales avoid areas with 120 dB or above. The Navy sets 140 dB as the maximum level of safe exposure to humans.

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. Long pipe organs, such as those found in churches and cathedrals produce infrasound. In one UK study, the extreme bass frequencies instilled strange feelings at a concert hall. Effects were “extreme sense of sorrow, coldness, anxiety, and even shivers down the spine.” (source; Organ Music Instills Religious Feelings,’ by Jonathan Amos, 9/8/2003)   Remember you do not hear infrasound. But you can sort of ‘see’ or in this case hear it, if you capture it with an audio system. “Some boom cars are equipped with a device known as a burp button. These devices generate large amplitude pressure/low frequency noise. When the burp button is used, it activates a low-band pass-filter which forces all of the amplifier’s power through the sub-woofer speakers at frequencies lower than a certain number of Hertz. At extremely low frequencies, it becomes infrasound. Thus you FEEL the blast of noise, as well as hear it.”

Ghost ‘sightings’ due to infra sound. Infrasonic 17 Hz tone experiment.

On 31 May 2003, a team of UK researchers held a mass experiment where they exposed some 700 people to music laced with soft 17 Hz sine waves played at a level described as “near the edge of hearing”, produced by an extra-long-stroke subwoofer mounted two-thirds of the way from the end of a seven-meter-long plastic sewer pipe: “These results suggest that low frequency sound can cause people to have unusual experiences even though they cannot consciously detect infrasound. Some scientists have suggested that this level of sound may be present at some allegedly haunted sites and so cause people to have odd sensations that they attribute to a ghost—our findings support these ideas.”[29]

and another example:

Research by Vic Tandy, a lecturer at Coventry University, suggested that an infrasonic signal of 19 Hz might be responsible for some ghost sightings. Tandy was working late one night alone in a supposedly haunted laboratory at Warwick, when he felt very anxious and could detect a grey blob out of the corner of his eye. When Tandy turned to face the grey blob, there was nothing. The following day, Tandy was working on his fencing foil, with the handle held in a vise. Although there was nothing touching it, the blade started to vibrate wildly. Further investigation led Tandy to discover that the extractor fan in the lab was emitting a frequency of 18.98 Hz, very close to the resonant frequency of the eye given as 18 Hz by NASA.[32] This was why Tandy had seen a ghostly figure—it was an optical illusion caused by his eyeballs resonating. The room was exactly half a wavelength in length, and the desk was in the centre, thus causing a standing wave which caused the vibration of the foil.[33] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound (wiki don’t lie) These ghosts sightings due to infrasound is a double whammy. Not only are you emotionally affected by the sound but you see ‘ghosts’ too, so you are double scared and you run twice as fast.

Infrasound detection:

Hear with your body.

“the explicit translation of sound into physical force.”

Boom Boom Bang Bang – same thing, now with sound.

(Audience member interacting with low frequencies and spatial vibration during Infrasound 25, September 25, 2010; Southern Exposure, San Francisco. Courtesy of Infrasound and 23five Inc. Photo: Lisa Seitz.)

“Deep Listening underscores an implicit distinction between hearing (the process by which sound is received by our ears and transmitted to the audio cortex) and listening (how we choose to focus on what we’re hearing). Hearing is something we’re doing all the time, whereas listening is a process by which we can immerse ourselves in, or distance ourselves from, what we hear. In this way, listening becomes an activity akin to breathing during meditation—a way to modulate awareness of self within a larger whole. That whole includes the body, not simply the ear, as a hearing agent and also the body as that which inhabits and shapes the space it occupies. By insisting that we hear with our bodies, Arford and Yau propose that listening with our bodies is a process of continual echolocation that is both all consuming and ever willful.”

Randy H.Y. Yau and Scott Arford. Infrasound 19, November 5, 2006; agnes b. skyline, Paris. Courtesy of Infrasound and 23five Inc.
http://www.artpractical.com/feature/hearing_with_your_body_infrasound

Elephant infrasounds made audible

and
nana nino: Ayahuasqueros: A Trip on Nowness.com.

and then there is

ULTRASOUND

Ultrasound is a cyclic sound pressure wave with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing

Watch the guy who invented the directional sound device.  Comes through the air in an ultrasonic wave and plays you a song just outside your ears.  No decoder needed.

 and the only person who will hear this is you!

So when you are in Sainsbury’s and you hear a voice just outside your ears asking you to buy tomatoes and you do not know where it is coming from – well ask the manager!

If you don’t have the time:

short version

long version

please read details

http://science.dodlive.mil/2010/09/01/remote-control-of-brain-activity-using-ultrasound/

inventions making it to the streets.  But these are the ones you can see. silent sounds you……..

Could you please look up rest for yourself. Thanks. A ‘Know Thyself’ article Total Being If You Know Yourself Then You Know The Universe. As An Artist (AAA) Finally Done and Dusted, siri For another day: sightseeing with infrasound:autobiography of a Yogi.

Research:

Queen: Lyrics ‘Keeping Yourself Alive'”Keep Yourself Alive”

I was told a million timesOf all the troubles in my wayHow I had to keep on tryingLittle better ev’ry dayBut if I crossed a million riversAnd I rode a million milesThen I’d still be where I startedBread and butter for a smile Well I sold a million mirrors In a shop in Alley Way But I never saw my face In any window any day………………Keep you satisfied.

“according to the Working Paper on Infrasound Weapons produced by Hungary for the United Nations in 1978 4, the frequency that is thought to be most dangerous to humans is between 7 and 8Hz. This is the resonant frequency of flesh and, theoretically, it can rupture internal organs if loud enough. Seven hertz is also the average frequency of the brain’s alpha rhythms; thus this frequency has been described as dangerous but also relaxing. Whether exposure to such infrasound can trigger epileptic seizures, as some fear, remains unclear; experimental data on exposure to such frequencies gives a variety of results.” for music with infrasound waves

If you have the time: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/129_noisy_ape/page2.shtml

This has nothing to do with sound but it is the next best thing – coming soon to your living room.

http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_giler_demos_wireless_electricity.html

and also ‘paparazzi’ Infrasound.

Too late for most:

“The public’s conception of “subliminals” is naive compared to capabilities.”

 http://www.bugsweeps.com/info/microwave.html

So what do you think is yours in your head?

And for Artist’s who makes your Art or writes your books for you?

mix it
 

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