"Burroughs, William S. - The Electronic Revolution" - читать интересную книгу автора (Burroughs William S)

example, here is a plane crash in Toronto 108 dead. so move the picture of
the Barcelona plane crash over to Toronto and Toronto to Barcelona. And you
scramble your fabricated news in with actual news broadcasts.

You have an advantage which your opposing player does not have. He must
conceal his manipulations. You are under no such necessity. In fact you can
advertise the fact that you are writing the news in advance and trying to
make it happen by techniques which anybody can use. And that makes you NEWS.
And TV personality as well, if you play it right. You want the widest
possible circulation for your cut/up video tapes. Cut/up techniques could
swamp the mass media with total illusion.

Fictional dailies retroactively cancelled the San Francisco earthquake and
Halifax explosion as journalistic hoaxes, and doubt released from the skin
law extendable and revenous, consumed all the facts of history.

Mr French concludes his article ..."The use of modern microelectric
integrated circits could lower the cost of speech scramblers enough to see
them in use by private citizens. Codes and ciphers have always had a strong
appeal to most people and I think scramblers will as well..."


It is generally assumed that speech must be consciously understood to
cause an effect. Early experiments with subliminal images have shown that
this is not true. A number of research projects could be based on speech
scramblers. We have all seen the experiment where someone hears his own
recorded voice back a few seconds later. Soon he cannot go on talking. Would
scrambled speech have the same effect? to what extent does a language act as
unscrambling in either-or conflict terms? To what extent does the tone of
voice used by a speaker impose a certain unscrambling sequence on the
listener?

Many of the cut/up tapes would be entertaining and in fact entertainment
is the most promising field for cut/up techniques. Imagine a pop festival
like Phun City scheduled for July 24th, 25th, 26, 1970 at Ecclesden
Common, Patching, near Worthing, Sussex. Festival area comprised of car park
and camping area, a rock auditorium, a village with booths and cinema, a
large wooded area. A number of Tape recorders planted in the woods and the
village. As many as possible so as to lay down a grid of sound over the whole
festival. Recorders have tapes of prerecorded material, music, news,
broadcasts, recordings from other festivals, etc. At all times some of the
recorders are playing back and some are recording. The recorders recording
the crowd and the other tape recorders that are playing back at varying
distances. This cuts in the crowd who will be hearing their own voices back.
Play back, wind back and record could be electronicly controlled with
varying intervals. Or they could be hand operated, the operator deciding what
intervals of play back, record, and wind to use. Effect is greatly increased
by a large number of festival goers with portable recorders playing back and
recording as they walk around the festival. We can carry it further with
projection screens and video cameras. Some of the material is pre-prepared,