Infant Chorale

I'm reading Banks with my mind on the impossible and listening to Philip Glass' Pruit Igoe. This time I'm really listening to the human voices. They are what gives this piece all of it's haunting urgency, and it's all in the timbre.

It occurs to me that as humans we are hard wired to be psychologically affected by the human voice. A woman screaming, a man bellowing, a baby crying. They get to us at a limbic level. I know recordings of babies crying have been looped to harass with less than lethal force. So what if by some magic of superb technology we were able to simulate the voices of babies to perfection? The emotional effects we could produce with a choir of infant voices could be extraordinary. I think it could produce a kind of music that would be psychologically dangerous.