Guerre Sonore

Guerre Sonore – Sound exceeds our capacity to think, it crosses all scales of reality and social life, and allows us to experiment in advance with the threats of the near future: these are the hypotheses deployed in his Guerre sonore by DJ, bass music producer and theorist Steve Goodman, better known by his pseudonym Kode 9, and trained at the Cyberculture Research Unit (CCRU) alongside Kodwo Eshun and Mark Fisher.Guided by the lessons of sound systems and raves, defying the divide between philosophy and science fiction, he composes with this book a vast fractal fresco, analyzing the limits of the audible and the sensory and speculative powers of vibration. Guerre sonore describes how the mastery of the infrabass and the occupation of sensory space have become the stakes in a secret but widespread battle where governments, marketers, designers and technoscientists clash with the low-frequency materialism of artists and the general public.