My project to use 24/7 outdoor music broadcast to repel urban hoodlums - don't let your memes stay dreams

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Billy Bob Dick said:
here's a thing I made using a noise generator:

29a.ch-noise-generator.mp3

let me know if you want a 5-hour loop, wouldn't take more than a few minutes
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Thanks, this is now playing on loop since 4 hours ago, replacing the music. This is like nails-on-chalkboard level of audio discomfort for me, so I hope it will also be unbearable for the hoodrats. I just hope it doesn't fry the speakers. In the previous version of this project, I discovered that bass-boosted "ear rape" songs have a damaging effect on desktop speakers.

I wonder if I should alternate this audio torture track with something different, to make it even more annoying and difficult to acclimate to. You'd think that if you had to listen to something 24/7, you would eventually be able to build a tolerance and get used to it.

The hoodrats are starting to build a real tent city out there, with tarp stretched over a wall of shopping carts and a low concrete wall, to create a covered trench for sleeping. I don't think they have been able to damage the new broadcast setup.
 
The Tall Man said:
I hope you mount a webcam pointing at the hoodrats some day. I would love to see the defensive capability of different music.
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Ever since I relocated the broadcast unit higher up, I have been thinking I could repurpose the original lower mounting position for a security camera, as the drilled holes and hardware are still there. I have some old 480p cameras that I could wire to a DVR, and maybe a 1080p camera.
 
millais said:
I wonder if I should alternate this audio torture track with something different, to make it even more annoying and difficult to acclimate to.
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here's another one! this time just me having fun with Audacity:



just imagine someone trying to have a conversation or sleep through this shit
 
here's a variation on a theme: I took the original noise loop and added some clanking sounds to it:



and here's one more idea, because LOL and I was having fun with it:

 
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This thread has given me pause for thought regarding the nature of man's relationship with Hell.

Presumably, there are plentiful areas scattered throughout your locale where Thoroughly Modern Millie does not blare from inaccessible speakers. And yet, instead of departing for these greener pastures, your cohort of indolent reprobates continue to assemble under their confusing shadow, from where they are occasionally moved towards Sisyphean attempts at unwalling the source of their perpetual disturbance.

It has made me wonder whether the same is true of Dante's Inferno. Do those unfortunate souls who boil eternally in cauldrons of human feces (and who perhaps conspire to facture these vessels allowing the excremental magma to drain out) know that can leave any time they so choose? They don't have to stand around waiting for Satan to seal the cracks in the cauldrons with his molten ejaculate. (I have taken some liberties with Dante's text, though I think he would approve and regard me as his spiritual heir). Do they stay because they lack the vision to conceive of an existence elsewhere?
 
millais said:
The hoodrats are starting to build a real tent city out there, with tarp stretched over a wall of shopping carts and a low concrete wall, to create a covered trench for sleeping.
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Time to start throwing dead fish or something into their camp. Between the Texas heat, the smell, and the flies they may move.
 
Billy Bob Dick said:
here's another one! this time just me having fun with Audacity:

auuuuuuuuuugh.mp3

just imagine someone trying to have a conversation or sleep through this shit
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Billy Bob Dick said:
here's a variation on a theme: I took the original noise loop and added some clanking sounds to it:

29a.ch-noise-generator+clanks.mp3

and here's one more idea, because LOL and I was having fun with it:

wtf.mp3
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Thanks, I will try some of these out too if the original is insufficient.

It's too early to tell if they are permanently gone or if its just a temporary move, but the hoodrats did pack up the whole encampment and leave a few hours ago.

I was not expecting this since the weather is not too terrible right now (when the weather is really bad, they will clear out until it's over) and they just spent all that effort to expand and build up the encampment .

This is also the first time I've tried anything so overtly hostile for this latest iteration of the project, as one of the major selling points of this music broadcast strategy is that you can honestly profess to all the moralizing busybodies that you're just inoffensively piping in music for ambiance and atmosphere and not because you need to deter the professional homeless.

That's why all the bus terminals and subway stations blast classical music and don't attempt anything more controversial or hostile.

But I think your noise loop sounds similar enough to some kind of legitimately malfunctioning audio glitch that I could leave it going for quite a while without raising any eyebrows.
 
millais said:
Thanks, I will try some of these out too if the original is insufficient.

It's too early to tell if they are permanently gone or if its just a temporary move, but the hoodrats did pack up the whole encampment and leave a few hours ago.

I was not expecting this since the weather is not too terrible right now (when the weather is really bad, they will clear out until it's over) and they just spent all that effort to expand and build up the encampment .

This is also the first time I've tried anything so overtly hostile for this latest iteration of the project, as one of the major selling points of this music broadcast strategy is that you can honestly profess to all the moralizing busybodies that you're just inoffensively piping in music for ambiance and atmosphere and not because you need to deter the professional homeless.

That's why all the bus terminals and subway stations blast classical music and don't attempt anything more controversial or hostile.

But I think your noise loop sounds similar enough to some kind of legitimately malfunctioning audio glitch that I could leave it going for quite a while without raising any eyebrows.
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this is a huge win, man. congratulations. I am genuinely ecstatic to have been a part of it

if anyone asks, it's a legitimate art installation. you commissioned an audio artist and they gave you artwork for your art installation project. fully protected under the 1A
 
Weeb Slinger said:
This thread has given me pause for thought regarding the nature of man's relationship with Hell.

Presumably, there are plentiful areas scattered throughout your locale where Thoroughly Modern Millie does not blare from inaccessible speakers. And yet, instead of departing for these greener pastures, your cohort of indolent reprobates continue to assemble under their confusing shadow, from where they are occasionally moved towards Sisyphean attempts at unwalling the source of their perpetual disturbance.

It has made me wonder whether the same is true of Dante's Inferno. Do those unfortunate souls who boil eternally in cauldrons of human feces (and who perhaps conspire to facture these vessels allowing the excremental magma to drain out) know that can leave any time they so choose? They don't have to stand around waiting for Satan to seal the cracks in the cauldrons with his molten ejaculate. (I have taken some liberties with Dante's text, though I think he would approve and regard me as his spiritual heir). Do they stay because they lack the vision to conceive of an existence elsewhere?
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It's a little beyond me to accurately speculate, but they almost certainly have more prosaic considerations in mind when they decide to endure the music.

Within a few miles of this site, there are several spots under bridges, overpasses, and medians that are favored spots for homeless encampment, and even one really big tent city built into the banks of a creek. The city authorities and police very rarely sweep and clear these spots due to their limited resources and the fact that the squatters in the tent city are armed with machetes and other weapons. It's not like the old days when they can just send some sanitation workers to break down the tents and toss all the stuff into a dump truck. Nowadays they need to go in with full body PPE because of the risk of lethal contamination by fentanyl, hepatitis/bloodborne diseases, etc.

So you'd think the hoodrats would congregate with their own kind and their own concentrations. But the hoodrats may not be welcome in the tent city or the other homeless encampments due to gang affiliation or turf disputes. The criminals running the tent city and other gang spots also charge fees or rent, so maybe the hoodrats cannot or will not pay up.

They are also dealing in drugs and stolen goods, so maybe they are willing to endure the music since the location is such a good spot for people to drive up and haggle with them.

They may also just be hardened. The majority are not teenage or 20 something urban youths. Most of them are middle aged, and sometimes I even see some elderly men among them.
 
I had previously suggested opera, and Chinese opera, but perhaps what is really needed are the musical stylings of Tiny Tim. How many repetitions of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" can one encampment endure?
 
This shit is just too funny.

How about looping something like this? Personally something that obvoisly loops would make me go fucking nuts if I'd have to listen to it for hours. Or how about a short, loud and shitty commercial on loop for hours. I'd probably blow my brains out.


Or some shit like this:
 
I did this to my nigger neighbor and he moved out. Dude would blast music until 5am. I work, unlike him, so that was a fucking problem. My landlord did nothing about it, and I tried talking to him multiple times. Dude was a drug dealer and a fucking loser. So I borrowed a massive monkey coffin speaker setup from a friend and wrote a script to blast the music as soon as ~10 minutes had passed where there was no sound at night (meaning he had gone to bed). After a few weeks he moved out (completely abandoned the apartment). Specifically I blasted a minor 9th (the most dissonant interval). Got complaints from him and from my apartment complex but I just ignored it. In the meantime I have really high quality earplugs so I used those and sometimes slept at a friend's apartment.

The whole ordeal made me more racist than any experience I've had in my entire life. I'm still fucking mad about it.
 
Give them this


The story goes that when this band brought this demo to the record company the exec played it and it drove his dogs crazy. First time I listened to it was via closed back headphones at work and within a minute I had co-workers asking me what that horrible noise was.

Hope this helps.
 
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