"I was thinking
one time about creating weather by using music. In brain surgery they use ultrasonics for cutting away tissue. They do that by a heating process. I think
of high frequencies creating heat in matter. Low frequencies are made up of pulses
and movements of columns of air--an example of an extremely low frequency would
be a hurricane or a whirlwind. In France a professor has studied a death-ray machine which
propels very low sounds. He had this organ- pit which is several-hundred feet
long and when they tested it out they killed a lot of people in the factory. A
lot of people became sick. The machine made everything vibrate. The music I'd been writing six years ago was a set of instructions for the wind and listening
to it--all the vibrations of sound. Some of the things I've been finding out
about electronics seem to suggest that it's possible to produce sound to alter
the temperature, make the air warmer or cooler, according to which combination
of pitches you use. I'd like to have a tape that would create a 75-degree
temperature. Over a period of days you could play a tape that would regulate
the heat around you. The kind of heat that would give off would be in some
cases like summer or autumn."
--John Cale
the classics remain...Bruce Conner made a cool accompanying video for this song, which appears in "SLOG" (a raucous and really funny film about early LA punk culture), but his version evidently isn't available online O WELL. (stills here.)
(first heard here, also Definitely worth viewing.)
this piece appears in an excellent documentary on Tokyo's avant-garde music scene, "We Don't Care About the Music, Anyway."
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