Wednesday, January 13, 2021

"Brown Note" Experiments by John Giorno & Bob Moog

The “brown note” is a rumored infrasonic frequency that causes people to shit themselves. According to poet John Giorno’s recent memoir, he and synthesizer pioneer Bob Moog conducted brown note experiments sometime in the late 1960s.

John Giorno, Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), 156-7.



 

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