"The brown note (sometimes brown tone or frequency) is a hypothetical infrasonic frequency capable of causing fecal incontinence by creating acoustic resonance in the human bowel. Considered an urban myth, the name is a metonym for the common color of human faeces. Attempts to demonstrate the existence of a "brown note" using sound waves transmitted through the air have failed.
Frequencies supposedly involved are between 5 and 9 Hz, which are below the lower frequency limit of human hearing. High-power sound waves below 20 Hz are felt in the body."
During the production of the first Hellraiser film, [the band Coil] were asked by director Clive Barker to compose the film's score. Their music was described by Barker as "bowel churning." The group completed nine tracks for the score, however the music was rejected by the producers, who wanted a more traditional, classical-based movie score.
Coil is the only group I’ve heard on disc whose records I’ve taken off because they made my bowels churn. -- Clive Barker
[Note: AStonesThrow met Clive Barker at San Diego Comic Con in the mid-1990s, and presented this very disc for his autograph, and he obligingly signed it with the Sharpie provided. Very nice guy in person. Yes: Coil's music is disgusting, reprehensible, vile, and usually unlistenable. Stay well away.]
