Sonic Control and Georgia
"In [William] Burroughs’s Electronic Revolution, methods of sonic control (part of the famous cut/up techniques) are examined and portrayed as a subversive means of applying revolutionary change to a given and already controlled reality.
By recording, editing, and playing back on location, one can transform exist-ing sonic architecture into their own psychoacoustic arena, or in Burroughs’ language, one can “discommode or destroy” locations with control methods."
- Idan Hayosh, About Strategies of Sonic Control and Inter Reaction (PDF link)
That was beginning of the century. Today, we see a slightly different kind of sonic control. Both BB and Wired report that the Saakashvili regime in Georgia is using them to crush protestors. Here's footage from Russia Today - Russian state-owned propaganda channel - yet this doesn't diminish the chilling impression. Some interesting comments regarding US' part in providing this modern technology.