Songs of War: Music as a Weapon (2010)

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Music elates, touches the soul and bypasses reason. Music is magic. But precisely this magic can turn it into an insidious weapon for music and violence belong together. The brutal power of African war dances, the ferocity of Maori Hakas, the earth-shattering roar of US sound guns blasting Metallica at Taliban hideouts the principle is always the same: Aggressive sounds demoralise the enemy and whip the allies into a frenzy. In Songs of War, director Tristan Chytroschek explores the extraordinary harmony between music and violence. Sesame Street composer, Christopher Cerf, always wanted his music to be fun and entertaining. But then he learned that his songs had been used to torture prisoners in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. He is stunned by this abuse of his work and wants to find out how this could happen.

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• Christopher Cerf

  Presenter

• Thomas Keenan

  Human Rights Project, Bard College, New York

• Chris Arendt

  Former Guard, Guantanamo Bay

• Herb Friedman

  Psychological Operations Expert, US Army

• Mike Ritz

  Former Interrogator, US Army

• Nathalie Gosselin

  Music Psychologist, Université de Montréal

• Moazzam Begg

  Former Detainee, Guantanamo Bay And Bagram

• Morag Josephine Grant

  Musicologist, University Of Göttingen

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  Mike Luce

  Drowning Pool

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  C.J. Pierce

  Drowning Pool

• Vahan Simidian II

  CEO, HPV Technologies

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Tristan Chytroschek

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Karl-Heinz Satzger, Norik Stepanjan