David Bowie Explains What Black Noise Is

Dick Cavett Wants To Know More About What Black Noise Is And How Destructive It Could BeShow more

“Black Noise? Black Noise Is Something [William S.] Burroughs Is Getting Interested In. One Facet Of Black Noise Is That Everything, Like A Glass, If An Opera Singer Hits A Certain Note, The Vibrations Alter The Metabolism Of The Glass And It Cracks It. So Black Noise Is The Frequency At Which You Can Crack A City Or People. It’s A New Controlled Bomb. It’s A Noise Bomb, In Fact.”

Dick Cavett Was Clearly Surprised By Bowie’s Talk Of Infrasonic Warfare And Immediately Asked The Musician If An Unnamed “Tyrant” Could Use It To Destroy His Enemies. Far From Quelling Cavett’s Cold War Anxieties, Bowie Explained, “Until Last Year You Could Buy The Patent For It In The French Patent-Office For About 3-4 Dollars.” Mouth Agape, Cavett Went On To Ask Bowie If The Bomb Could Destroy A City As Big As, Say, LA. “It Depends How Much Money You Put Into It,” He Replied. “I Mean A Small One Could Probably Kill About Half The People Here. But A Big One Could…Destroy A City. Or Even More.”

Date Aired: 5th December 1974 On The Dick Cavett Show

🔗 Bowie, Burroughs and the Black Noise Bomb: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/bowie-burroughs-and-the-black-noise-bomb/

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