James Rushton — 'Milky'

Infrasonic Control is an ongoing research project exploring and mapping infrasound (inaudible low-frequency waves > 20hz) levels within communities. Infrasound has long been known by science to create nausea, respiration difficulty, anxiety and fear within humans. It has also been known to mutate bacteria and is possibly believed to be related to grey matter. In order to monitor these levels of infrasound, self-adapted geophones (seismic sensors) are used on location. The project itself is firmly grounded in the theory of Vibrational Anarchitecture: that the low-frequency resonation of buildings create ambient infrasound in urban environments along with all other sources of urban infrasonics. The work questions whether this repeated exposure to infrasound is being used as a means of systemic societal control, through the perpetuation of ecological fear seen in rentier capitalism.