The musician is Laurie Amat and she has heard about a conspiracy theory involving Joseph Goebbels and the Nazis. Supposedly, on an international conference in 1939, the Nazis changed the music tuning globally. They changed the frequency to 440 Hertz. The Nazis changed the tone of the tuning fork for all musicians worldwide. They did it because they thought it would make the masses aggressive and more easy to manipulate. This is the music pitch we listen to today.
Driven by her worry Laurie is thrown on a larger adventure into the unknown universe of sound.
During the journey we meet passionate and charismatic sound enthusiasts. They reveal what sound really means to them personally and what it can do to you. Laurie experiences how sound can heal, how sound can manipulate your feelings and push you to do something, and how sound can be used as weapon.
Is it possible that second world war Nazis knew about this?
During the exploration into sound Laurie brings in her own thoughts and personal memories around sound, anecdotes and humour where you never know what sound is waiting around the next corner.
A film by Gunnar Hall Jensen
Written by Gunnar Hall Jensen, Kristian Stangebye and Elin Sander
Director of photography Måns Berthas
Editor Erlend Haarr Eriksson
Sound designer Øyvind Rydland
Production manager Haakon Wuttudal
Executive producer Kristian Stangebye
Produced by Christian Aune Falch, Torstein Parelius and Ingrid Galadriel Aune Falch
Laurie Amat in Oh, it Hertz!