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S.P.I.R.A.W.L. (Sound Proofed Institute of Research into Acoustic Weapons Logistics) is a web documentary about the sonic landscape and the pioneering use of sound weapons within it.

Scientific fact: Everything in the known universe has a resonant frequency. Humans can only hear a small range of these frequencies, from 20 –20,000 Hz. But there are many frequencies which exist outside our range of hearing that we are exposed to everyday. The audible fields of sound are mapped out, managed and regulated in the same way as any physical territory. The inaudible frequencies, however, represent a free zone. This free zone is now being staked out chaotically with an ethical disregard reminiscent of the way the American West was ‘won’. We locate our documentary in this sonic landscape and go in search of the aural boundaries that are being quietly pioneered by military and civilian police forces through the use of sound weapons.