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resonating
form of experience; but what we have now has grown from resonance
to neurological. It reaches out to us through the screen to
directly stimulate the cortex of the viewer. This is a new form of
television. This is the video-word made into a tangible
experience.”
“Television as a drug,”
Barry quipped.
“It’s more than just a
drug. I believe that when properly harnessed, massive doses of
Veraceo signal could be transformative to other fields. Education
for example. Imagine if we could sit children in front of
televisions that program their minds at a deeper level than can
happen in a traditional classroom. Imagine if Veraceo could
reprogram the minds of criminal offenders. This is special, Barry.
Veraceo-Two is a game changer.”
----- X -----
A new cassette arrived
from Pittsburgh along with a letter from Deborah, the S&M
expert. The cassette was marked ‘Trial 12 - Double Interracial -
CLEAN, NO VERACEO’. With it came a note that read, ‘Brian, we’ve
learned a lot about what works and this is our most powerful tape
yet. We watched it with Veraceo-2 set at ten percent, but even at
that low level the impact was profound.’
He’d been giving some
thought as to how to make the Veraceo-Two signal change in strength
and devised an ingeniously simple solution. It began by connecting
an audio test-tone generator to a reel-to-reel audio recorder.
Ordinarily, this would record a single audio tone onto the tape;
but if he kept one hand on the recording gain control, he could
turn the knob one way and the volume of the recorded tone would
rise. If he turned it the other way the volume of the tone would
fall. The idea was he could watch the programme and make an audio
recording of a tone that rises and falls in volume, then later use
that recording as a control track to adjust the level of
Veraceo.
He prepared playback of
Double Interracial and set the Veraceo-Two signal generator to
twenty percent.
The video began.
The theatrical plywood
set had been replaced and now looked like real walls painted dark
red. The Punisher figures had been updated too. Now they wore
looser fitting oilskins with hoods that hid their eyes. The back
wall was covered in a steel mesh connected to ominous electrical
equipment. It looked like it could give electric shocks. The camera
tilted down to a naked couple on the floor, a black man and a white
woman. They were seated back to back and trapped within a tortuous
double collar that contained some kind of choking mechanism; only
one of them could breathe at a time. One had to slide their neck
back which tightened the collar on the person behind them. The
couple were carefully trying to pace their breathing between
them.
One of the Punishers
whipped the man making him jerk, the action in turn squeezing the
woman’s throat. It gave a powerful and immediate reaction and Brian
felt his hand almost involuntarily turn the audio gain lower to
reduce the volume of the recording tone. The woman took her turn in
breathing and the other punisher grabbed her breast in one hand and
her hair in the other to make her shriek. It was erotic and Brian
turned the volume louder.
For fifteen minutes
they whipped the couple. The victims choking and crying, the
woman’s face becoming bright red. All the while Brian adjusted the
audio gain, the reels slowly rotating and the test tone recording
at varying volumes.
When the film finished
he breathed out heavily and went for a walk outside to calm down.
It was exhausting but exhilarating in equal measure.
For the remainder of
the afternoon he spent time building an electronic filter that
could interpret the reel-to-reel audio and use it to adjust the
Veraceo level. It was simple enough in theory but building the
electronics took the best part of six hours.
Once finished he
duplicated the Double Interracial tape whilst embedding the now
dynamic Veraceo signal.
He would try it later,
once any lingering effects from the day’s work had worn
form of experience; but what we have now has grown from resonance
to neurological. It reaches out to us through the screen to
directly stimulate the cortex of the viewer. This is a new form of
television. This is the video-word made into a tangible
experience.”
“Television as a drug,”
Barry quipped.
“It’s more than just a
drug. I believe that when properly harnessed, massive doses of
Veraceo signal could be transformative to other fields. Education
for example. Imagine if we could sit children in front of
televisions that program their minds at a deeper level than can
happen in a traditional classroom. Imagine if Veraceo could
reprogram the minds of criminal offenders. This is special, Barry.
Veraceo-Two is a game changer.”
----- X -----
A new cassette arrived
from Pittsburgh along with a letter from Deborah, the S&M
expert. The cassette was marked ‘Trial 12 - Double Interracial -
CLEAN, NO VERACEO’. With it came a note that read, ‘Brian, we’ve
learned a lot about what works and this is our most powerful tape
yet. We watched it with Veraceo-2 set at ten percent, but even at
that low level the impact was profound.’
He’d been giving some
thought as to how to make the Veraceo-Two signal change in strength
and devised an ingeniously simple solution. It began by connecting
an audio test-tone generator to a reel-to-reel audio recorder.
Ordinarily, this would record a single audio tone onto the tape;
but if he kept one hand on the recording gain control, he could
turn the knob one way and the volume of the recorded tone would
rise. If he turned it the other way the volume of the tone would
fall. The idea was he could watch the programme and make an audio
recording of a tone that rises and falls in volume, then later use
that recording as a control track to adjust the level of
Veraceo.
He prepared playback of
Double Interracial and set the Veraceo-Two signal generator to
twenty percent.
The video began.
The theatrical plywood
set had been replaced and now looked like real walls painted dark
red. The Punisher figures had been updated too. Now they wore
looser fitting oilskins with hoods that hid their eyes. The back
wall was covered in a steel mesh connected to ominous electrical
equipment. It looked like it could give electric shocks. The camera
tilted down to a naked couple on the floor, a black man and a white
woman. They were seated back to back and trapped within a tortuous
double collar that contained some kind of choking mechanism; only
one of them could breathe at a time. One had to slide their neck
back which tightened the collar on the person behind them. The
couple were carefully trying to pace their breathing between
them.
One of the Punishers
whipped the man making him jerk, the action in turn squeezing the
woman’s throat. It gave a powerful and immediate reaction and Brian
felt his hand almost involuntarily turn the audio gain lower to
reduce the volume of the recording tone. The woman took her turn in
breathing and the other punisher grabbed her breast in one hand and
her hair in the other to make her shriek. It was erotic and Brian
turned the volume louder.
For fifteen minutes
they whipped the couple. The victims choking and crying, the
woman’s face becoming bright red. All the while Brian adjusted the
audio gain, the reels slowly rotating and the test tone recording
at varying volumes.
When the film finished
he breathed out heavily and went for a walk outside to calm down.
It was exhausting but exhilarating in equal measure.
For the remainder of
the afternoon he spent time building an electronic filter that
could interpret the reel-to-reel audio and use it to adjust the
Veraceo level. It was simple enough in theory but building the
electronics took the best part of six hours.
Once finished he
duplicated the Double Interracial tape whilst embedding the now
dynamic Veraceo signal.
He would try it later,
once any lingering effects from the day’s work had worn
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