MrRING
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As a LoveHound (aka a Kate Bush fan) I was listening to the Strange Phenomenon: The Music Of Kate Bush podcast about her song Experiment IV. The storyline relayed by the lyrics of the song is about an experiment in sound that leads to a murderous event, and it has a boffo horror-themed music video with some cool celeb cameos:
The podcast (episode S05E18) went in exciting (or excruciating if not a fan) detail about the song, it's creation, musical style and all that. However, they got to talking about the inspiration for the tune, and that was quite interesting. As related starting roughly at the 19 minute mark of the podcast from an old issue of the Kate fanzine Home Ground, number 25, in an article written by Peter Fitzgerald Morris,
If Kate heard the story, it may have been made up wholecloth then and there with no relation to any reported story. However, I bet if this was being related through a reported event we must have a thread about it here. Or maybe somebody else has come across such a tale.
The podcast (episode S05E18) went in exciting (or excruciating if not a fan) detail about the song, it's creation, musical style and all that. However, they got to talking about the inspiration for the tune, and that was quite interesting. As related starting roughly at the 19 minute mark of the podcast from an old issue of the Kate fanzine Home Ground, number 25, in an article written by Peter Fitzgerald Morris,
Experiment IV was based on a story that Kate heard about a scientist in France who built a giant steam whistle to assess the effects of the sound. The effect was simple: it killed him and a number of the people in the surrounding area. The area had to be cordoned off and the public kept out until the device powering the whistle ran out of fuel.
If Kate heard the story, it may have been made up wholecloth then and there with no relation to any reported story. However, I bet if this was being related through a reported event we must have a thread about it here. Or maybe somebody else has come across such a tale.