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MUZAK-A CONCEPT IN HUMAN ENGINEERING
In Tibet, Singing Bowls, Singing Bells, Thigh Bone Trumpets, Drums are used
in, to westerners, non-logical combinations to cure Migraines, Mental Illness,
and other metabolic imbalances. Thee language used is different. Thee heads
of Demons are split asunder, Demons are exorcised from those possessed
(could describe a junky in cold-turkey).
In other ethnic cultures, trance states, visionary states are achieved by
Rhythms and Frequencies. In New Guinea large Sacred Flutes vibrate thee air against itself causing mental revelatory states and precognition. In Morocco, thee Joujouka players use high Frequency pipes and drums to reach ecstatic states and conjour up Pan and effect Magick. In thee Mayan civilisation, there were strange unexplained « oil-lamps » which for a long time were merely trinkets in Museums, misunderstood objects. Then one day a young archaeologist happened to idly blow through one, hit a pure, very high
pulsating note that sent him on a « trip ». Throughout thee world, in all
cultures therefore, primitive and technological, man has instinctively known
that Frequency and Pulse coumbined had amazing effects on mind and body.
Until recently, there was no language to adequately describe this
interrelationship, and even now, Research is only slowly collating precise
data on which frequency/pulse does what. Everyone has observed Tribal
warriors whipping themselves into a trance for war, to feel no pain (that is
of course Endorphine) or for « Magick », to have visions, see Demons, etc. (that is its visionary, hallucinogenic capacity). Yet two and two were never fully put together. A Bill Haley concert would end in frenzied vandalism, Bill Haley thinking it was because his music was so fantastically good and exciting AS MUSIC. In fact it was a coumbination of mass hysteria, as in Tribal dancing, and an actual drug-induced, metabolic explosion, totally unconscious and uncontrolled, triggered by thee inherent rhythms and Frequencies of sound.
Because he was unaware of thee triggers he was dabbling with, thee very
results were unpredictable, coumfused and uncontrolled. Funny enough,
those Right-Wing journalists who condemned this « jungle music » were far
closer to thee truth than their tiny minds could ever have envisaged. So
music does PHYSICALLY reconstruct, ENGINEER, thee brain, its hormones,
thee body, its hormones; its entire metabolic regulator system is tuned.
There is a great deal of pressure upon thee inventors of thee Black Box to
cease their research; or hand it over to thee Governments of USA and Britain.
There is incredible pressure from thee huge drug corporations to prevent its
widespread publicity and application too. Obviously they have a vested
interest in making millions from drug-dependent human beings whilst
simultaneously suppressing their visionary capabilities. Thee old story
Burroughs got so right. This also explains thee kidnap of Rock music in thee
Sixties by thee Governments and Media, aided by corporations and
coumglomerates to defuse its radical abilities to restate thee tribal
unification and ecstasy of primitive ritual music. Drugs suppress, commercial
« easy listening » music suppresses, they quite literally addict and destroy
thee potency of each metabolism they affect. It is a war, no two ways about
it, and only now do we have thee information and technology needed to fight
our own guerilla war back. One has to begin to construct one’s music to
short-circuit thee implants we’ve been conditioned into with commercial
music. One has to avoid and reject thee drugs of control we’ve been
conditioned to rely on in moments of defeat and self-hate. We need to
discover and research, as scientifically as possible, methods to reach drug
states that are useful without thee use of drugs. Sound, Frequency,
Dreamachines are thee keys to that. Boy guerilla in a police station,
questioned, under threat, no worries about blackmail through needing a fix,
no cold turkey. He can use trained voice pitch to flip out his custodians, send
them blind, make them vomit and walk out a free man stamping his feet in
coded rhythm of control paranoia. Information suppressed by authorities
and monopolised by big business is usually dangerous to their supremacy
and useful to us, making them both impotent and redundant. When power is
dispensable it is no longer power, it is pathetic posturing.
Burroughs and Gysin chanced upon cut-ups, they had thee vision to see thee
IMPLICATIONS. And discovering thee code of true implications is thee mark
of real genius, really radical thought. Gysin hallucinated constructively whilst
travelling on a bus through France. Thee sunlight flickering through
regularly spaced trees on his closed eyelids pulsing at slightly different
phased intervals being thee key, coumbined with a particular frequency. He
understood thee IMPLICATIONS, and with Ian Sommerville built thee
DREAMACHINE, probably thee most important and thee most neglected anti-
control, anti-drug device ever invented by mankind. Permanent visions and
perceptual revelations for an occasionally replenished light-bulb. With T.G.
we openly declared our primary interest was METABOLIC music, and thee
application of cut-up techniques with tape and sound to non-entertainment
motivated music directed at deconditioning social restraints on thought and
body. In PSYCHIC TV we intend to apply our research and new information
to building an even more precise and useful Individual structure that
consciously takes into account thee real effects of Frequency and Pulse
butter propagandises them in a very deceptive and subliminal way. A
distorted mirror reflecting muzak back on itself. An innocuous parody of
style, tactic and structure that in fact contains, in code, thee seeds of its own
destruction, and hopefully, thee structure that nurtures it. To appear
deflowered yet to be totally potent.
REFERENCES
Thee language used in mysticism, quite rightly has been debunked. It has
becoum a crutch of not-understanding that allows dogma to flourish. Our
enemy must always use dogma. To ask « WHY? », to « NEVER ACCEPT » are
crucial. Thee most crucial and stimulating of human capacities. However, one
can recognize an intuitive grasp of thee real function of sound when, for
example, Paramhansa Yogananda says: « I understand the explosive vibratory
power in human speech could be wisely directed to free one’s life from
difficulties and thus operate without scar or rebuke. »
« Any word spoken with clear realization and deep concentration has a
materialising value. Loud or silent repetition of words has been found
effective in psychotherapy. The secret lies in the stepping-up of the mind’s
vibratory rate. »
PTV suggested that musick is like teeth. You keep probing around until you
find holes and then you fill them in until you have a coumplete set.
Industrial Music was a term coined by Monte Cazazza for our early research.
We openly declared we should eventually like to invent an anti-muzak that,
instead of cushioning thee sounds of a factory environment, made use of
those very sounds to create rhythmic patterns and structures that
incorporated thee liberating effects of music by unexpected means. This
approach is diametrically opposed to thee position of official MUZAK, as
supplied by thee MUZAK CORPORATION of AMERICA. Their intention is to
disguise stress, to control and direct human activity to generate maximum
productivity and minimum discontent in order to give large corporations and
industrial coumplexes thee highest possible profit with thee least
responsibility. At this point E quote direct from a book published by thee
MUZAK CORPORATION for its employees only and which E was able to read
sections of by nefarious means:
Upon entering thee Headquarters of Muzak Corp., there is a marble tablet set
into thee wall which reads ‘MUZAK-A CONCEPT IN HUMAN ENGINEERING.’
« One problem we face today is noise. We are going to have to protect people
against noise pollution. » Dr. Bill Wokoun-Director of Human Engineering.
« Even banks have a noise problem, a sonic overload of chairs
scraping/coughing/machines/high heels on vinyl/talking. It is becoming
very evident that you have got to protect people who are working. They will
have to wear ear-plugs or ear-muffs. But people don’t LIKE to do this
because it makes them feel violated. So we’re experimenting with a way of
making it more COMFORTABLE to wear headsets (be violated! – Ed.) by
piping in muzak. » Dr. B. Wokoun. Muzak is a PROGRAMMED ENVIRONMENT.
The raw material of muzak is music. Muzak serves 43 of the top 50 largest
Industrial companies. In ice-bound radar stations, muzak stimulates the men
who man the DEW-Line, the Distant Early Warning Cordon, to warn of
nuclear attack. Over 80 million people a day hear muzak. Muzak isn’t music
to LISTEN to, it is music to HEAR. Muzak is functional music. There are three
main Muzak programmes, for Heavy Industry, Light Industry and the Basic,
or Office programme. In each of these 15 minutes of music, or « sound-
inmotion » as we call it, is followed by 15 minutes of silence. « The ironical
thing is, we have no trouble in TOTALITARIAN countries. Mood control and
crowd control is part of the work of the HUMAN FACTORS DIVISION.
« The IRREDUCIBLE MINORITY are people who don’t want or like muzak. A
muzak transmission studio is a dream of 1984 automation. » (From the Muzak
Corp. Bulletin G.B.) « If muzak makes people happy and contented in their
environment, like air-conditioning and a colour scheme, how can it NOT be
good? »
« MUZAK – SPECIALISTS IN THE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL
EFFECTS AND APPLICATIONS OF MUSIC. »
Muzak is based on the theory of the ASCENDING CURVE.
The initial observation was that production is inclined to slump in mid-
morning and afternoon. Wyatt and Langon established 4 work-curves from
utter fatigue to a subtler decline that occurs when the work is distasteful
and the operative is severely bored. Dan O’Neill decided this monotony and
its effects would be relieved by FUNCTIONAL MUSIC, i.e., boring work is
made less boring by boring music (Muzak quote).
Some titles of Muzak Corp. Reports and Research documents:
Effects of Muzak on Industrial Efficiency.
Effects of Muzak on Office Personnel.
Application of Functional Music to Worker Efficiency.
The « Hawthorne Effect » is « A change in employee productivity caused by an
awareness that reactions to environmental changes are being observed. »
Research findings on the physiological and psychological effects of music and muzak:
It increases the metabolism. Speeds up breathing, typing, writing, driving.
Increases (or sometimes decreases) muscular energy. Reduces suggestability, (not proven at all, recent use of coded messages in muzak to prevent theft in supermarkets suggest the opposite and that Muzak Corp are lying) delays fatigue, facilitates attention, and produces marked, if rather variable effects on blood pressure and pulse.
My note: People often put on records whilst trying to seduce someone for
sex, this is an unconscious use of muzak effects and admission of thee
physical controls of music. Addiction to playing music is a commonplace
example of instintive use of functional music.
By 1956 Dan O’Neill finally achieved workable « Muzak Programming and
Stimulus Charts ». Patterns with upwards scoops of sonic stimulus which
exactly compensate for those dark quarter-hours when employee’s residual
energy is lowest. Music should embody a constant progression of
BRIGHTNESS. This is done by analysing the separate segments into:
Tempo, Rhythm, Instrumentation, and Tonal Mass.
The reason you always get 15 minutes of muzak followed by 15 minutes of
silence is because the maximum you should play in any working area is 1/2
the time the employee is there. That way the employee is unaware of being
physically and mentally manipulated.
Two big variables in music are Melody and Rhythm. Muzak are now
hypothesising from observations made of hospital patients that htese may be
related to the electrical activity of the nervous system. So that rhythmic
music may stimulate the sympathetic system and melodic music may
stimulate the para-sympathetic system e.g., Cardiac cases seem to respond
better to melodic music. Peptic ulcer patients seem to respond better to
rhythmic music. Muzak Corp. are researching this theory to achieve:
« A total programme. We are not so much interested in what music we use as
with the sequence that will achieve results. »
MUZAK IS HEARD RATHER THAN LISTENED TO.
Although you are not necessarily conscious of it, it will still AFFECT you. This
process is called COMPLETE EAR APPEAL.
In the event of failure of our Basic Programme we do not panic. Muzak has
an automatic sensing unit which will trigger a standby M4R Machine into
operation after 4 minutes of Basic Programme failure (i.e. no audio). The
sensing unit will automatically turn on the button number 3 M4R Machine
which is taped in a pre-set condition. In the advent of nuclear war, Muzak
have our own power generators to ensure no failure of the Basic Programme
to those facilities still functioning and able to recieve our transmissions.
« We were in a slaughterhouse recently. Apparently they were having
problems. The animals’ blood would clot. They say the blood flows freely
now. The muzak relaxes them as they die. »
Muzak is not on pre-packaged cassettes and tapes. The only records of
muzak are NOT on sale to the public, they are for internal research only.
Muzak is transmitted by telephone cable and radio. In that way a monopoly
can be ensured and complete adherence to the selected programme
maintained.
Bear in mind therefore that the innocuous music heard in many elevators,
and supermarkets, offices and fast food chains is not true MUZAK. It is but a
pale, unscientific reflection of thee potent human engineering material.
There is no doubt that thee body metabolism functions primarily via a
combination of electrical frequency, pulse rates, biochemical hormones and
rhythms. Thee brain, a vaguely understood mystery, is dependant on input.
There is no doubt that thee conglomerate forces that seek to maintain control
over us all FOR ITS OWN SAKE, and to preserve their own vacuous position,
are far more aware of these aspects than they admit. There is no doubt that
muzak, drugs, suppressants of metabolic stimulation are used as weapons to
ensure stability of an oppressive status quo. Each breakthrough is kidnapped
from thee youth/radical culture and is emasculated, mutated and rendered
impotent. Only then is it returned to us packaged and harmless to them, as
commercial music, token rebellion and obvious yet useless anti-social
behaviour that not only ensures thee continued existence of their
omnipotence butter also generates increased incoum for their coumfort,
security and future research into control.
Music now must be aware of thee subtleties of its effects, its structure must
take into account thee metabolic and neurological effects and power of music
and harness them for its own, deconditioning, anarchic ends.
Thee empty carrot of success and respect must be seen for thee transparent
confidence trick that it is, drugs of addiction must be bypassed, thee REAL
WAR must begin. Thee decoding is possible, our own code becoums more
sophisticated and effective.
Everything E say is discussion, nothing is ever finished.
