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Dick Cavett: What is “Black Noise”?
David Bowie: Black noise?
Dick Cavett: Yeah.
David Bowie: Black Noise is something that Barrow’s got very interested in.
Dick Cavett: Yeah, it’s a big one.
David Bowie: Well, no – it’s one facet of Black Noise is that, everything – like a glass, if an opera singer hits a particular note, the vibrations are out of the metabolism of the glass and it cracks it, yeah?
Dick Cavett: Yeah.
David Bowie: So Black Noise is the register, within which you can crack a city or people, or – it’s a new controlled bomb. It’s a noise bomb, in fact, which can destroy. Why do you ask that?
Dick Cavett: Is it a real thing? Is it being experiemented upon?
David Bowie: Oh, it is, yeah. It was invented in France.
Dick Cavett: Could a tyrant use it, to…
David Bowie: Well, until last year, you could buy the patent for it in the French Patent Office for about the equivalent of three, four dollars.
It depends how much money you put into it. I mean, a small one could probably kill about half the people there, but a big one could destroy a city, or even more.
Dick Cavett: This is a weird idea.
David Bowie: Don’t look at [me!] It’s not my idea!
Dick Cavett: Let’s not give the instructions on how to do it!