Sonic Warfare Sound Affect and the Ecology of FearAuthor Steve Goodman An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonalitywhen sound helps produce a bad vibe. Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dreadto produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the psychoacoustic correction aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U. S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in Waco by the FBI, sonic booms (or