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{"title":"From a sow's ear","authors":"E. Zabawski","doi":"10.2307/j.ctt1d9nq8b.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1d9nq8b.36","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23273,"journal":{"name":"Tribology & Lubrication Technology","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68711949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Firefly in a Fir Tree: A Carol for Mice","authors":"S. Roberts","doi":"10.1017/CBO9780511618178.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511618178.010","url":null,"abstract":"www.thelancet.com/psychiatry Vol 3 May 2016 413 In September, 1973, New Scientist published a story about a sonic weapon called a squawk box, designed for crowd control. “The rubber bullet”, said author Robert Rodwell, “leaves visible bruises at best, and at worst smashed eyes... what does the squawk box leave”? Histories of weaponised sound are scant and—like the sq uawk box—shrouded in something that might be secrecy. It is known that in the 19th century Nikola Tesla experimented with infrasound, or sound below the level of human hearing, as did a scientist called Vladimir Gavreau in the 1950s. The Nazis are said to have built something called a Luftkanone, or sound canon, which they hoped would zap British bombers from the sky. If weaponised sound seems to dwell on the esoteric fringes of science, it is a notion with a vivid life in fi ction. “They told us all they wanted was a sound that could kill someone”, sings Kate Bush in her tale of sonic research gone wrong, Experiment IV. David Lynch’s Dune features weapons that channel the human voice into an instrument of death. Bad things are done to Michael Caine with sound in The Ipcress File. The writer Robert Graves was well acquainted with the impact sound could have on the human body and mind. In Goodbye to All That, his World War 1 memoir, he wrote that on return to civilian life from the front, “the noise of a car backfi ring would send me fl at on my face, or running for cover”. In The Shout, a short story he wrote in 1926, Graves explores the notion that the human voice can kill. At the time, he wrote, “I was still living on the neurasthenic verge of nightmare”. The Shout tells the story of Richard and Rachel Fielding, whose home and marriage are invaded by a mysterious vagrant, Charles Crossley. Crossley claims to have lived among Aborigines in Australia, and to have learnt from them how to kill a man with a “death shout”. In 1978 the story was made into a fi lm by Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski (Moonlighting, Deep End), starring Alan Bates as Crossley, Susannah Yorke as Rachel Fielding, and John Hurt as Richard, who Skolimowski renames Anthony and turns from the musician of Graves’s original story into an experimental composer. Adapting The Shout for the screen poses a question— what does a sound that could kill someone actually, well, sound like? When the BBC adapted the story for radio a few years later they drafted in the Radiophonic Workshop’s Roger Limb to tackle the problem. Skolimowski deployed the still relatively new Dolby Optical Stereo system, explaining to an interviewer from Sight and Sound, “the human voice is helped on forty or more tracks by all the things that came into my mind that might be helpful, the Niagara Falls, the launching of the moon rocket, everything. But over the top is the real human voice of a man shouting like hell”. Sonically thrilling though this Niagara-enhanced, rocket-propelled roar is, the real horror in The Shout (which won the Grand Jury Priz","PeriodicalId":23273,"journal":{"name":"Tribology & Lubrication Technology","volume":"3 1","pages":"219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/CBO9780511618178.010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57081243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}