Musicians condemn use of their songs as instruments of war

Musicians condemn use of their songs as instruments of war

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The campaign, Zero dB, was launched yesterday by Reprieve, which represents more than 30 prisoners in Guantánamo Bay. Many of the detainees there and others held in secret locations have reported being subjected to deafening music for hours, in an attempt to break them.

Zero dB is backed by the Musicians Union, which urged British musicians to voice their anger about the use of music as torture. But not all musicians are opposed to the use of their music.

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What really gripped me in this article, is that some prisoners have said it can be even worse than more traditional methods of physical torture, including waterboarding... and that the UN and European court of human rights have already banned the use of loud music in interrogations.

When i image being forced to listen to one (or two) songs over and over and over at a full blast volume for 20 days, i can see why many lost their minds... "knocking their heads against the walls and the doors, screaming their heads off."

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I heard it was things like Cradle of filth or Nile, cannibal corpse etc they made them listen to...which wouldnt be too bad if it wasnt for so long...

This was mentioned in Jon Ronson's book, "The Men Who Stare At Goats".

Talked about blasting out Barney songs inside those shipping containers to crack prisoners.

CX.

Of course it can be crueler than "conventionaal" torture... You heard some of the stuff they're calling music now!?

It's prob due to the musicians not getting royalty payments
Seriously though it maybe to do with frequency and distortion as high vloumes of some music would seroiusly scramble the brain & it wouldnt take long before someone cracked - it is prob what was used on the guys that have claimed they were part of the 9/11 plot which is obvious that they werent, but that kind of torture will make people say anything just to have it ended. Psychological torture is harder to resist than physical.

I'll just bite my tongue.
Its sad.Even when I think that the world can't get any lower it really seems to find a way to disgust me even further.

Reflecting on this a little further, i'm thinking that this approach and water boarding were specifically encouraged by the DoD because it sounds almost recreational on the surface. In hopes that the media and public would stay out of their affairs, with visions of prisoners surfing to music?

Living in Chicago, we have had some rap-loving neighbors in the past. No matter what the volume the bass travels. Very mild in comparison to the volumes and duration used in "music torture" but it was driving me nuts. I've even noticed when a car playing rap music is even as far away as two car lanes, it's beyond annoying. With this said, i would think rap and/or techno dance music would be the most brutal of all music genres.