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whad'ya think of noise music?
 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-05-23 13:58 [#01203077]
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i listen to that which would be considered "noise" more than
just about anything else these days... and it sounds nothing
like the music that most of you are describing... first of
all, opening the thread by restricting the inclusion of
artists like oval and fennesz makes no sense, because noise
does comprise a large portion of what they do (it's like
saying: talk about rock... just don't talk about the rolling
stones or the beatles...)... describing them as melodic, and
therefore not noise, implies that noise has no melody, which
is horseshite... and also speaks volumes about just what it
is that i find interesting in good noise music... that is:
it explores the kind of melodics and harmonics that other
music will not tread upon because of its perceived
unpleasantness... it explores the kind of abstract
compositional forms (or non-forms) that other music will not
tread upon because of its perceived inaccessibility... in
short, noise music accepts and draws from as its inspiration
the beautiful sounds and impressions in nature--something
that is much more broad and chaotic than your typical
musical form... it accepts a much more broad definition of
what constitutes music... like uzim said, the sound of a
train arriving is beautiful, why not explore it? perhaps one
might argue a lack of melody... but this isn't true, it just
doesn't fit into the western melodic scale--i believe the
correct term is 12 tone?-- which is very much constructed
and has not been with us for all eternity. "Noise" is the
term used to refer to the music that doesn't adhere to
normative conceptions of what music can be... there was a
time when people would call rock "noise, and the same can be
said for bebop and pretty much every other jazz form that
grew from it... if there were no stockhausens, cages,
whitehouses (giarcthebastard where are you?), there would be
no aphex twins...
am i saying that noise is empirically superior to other
forms of music? no...


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-05-23 14:03 [#01203088]
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... but the image of what noise music constitutes in this
thread: noisey, unchallenging, simplistic, not thought out,
indulgent, nihilistic, etc.

this kind of conception only illustrates just how little
noise music most people have even heard... again, i'm not
accusing everyone here of never having heard any.... but
does it surprise me at all to hear comments like "yeah i
heard a noise album once... noise music is no good", or the
fact that the only three artists mentioned were Merzbow,
Aphex Twin, and Hecker? not in the slightest...


 

offline notmyname from France on 2004-05-24 03:44 [#01203818]
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it's not because i didn't speak about many so called 'noise'
artists, that i ONLY listen to hecker & smojphace (huge fan
of mego).
deadeight, please give us your top ten of noise friendly
cd's.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-05-24 03:49 [#01203828]
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I made noise once.. then I stopped, and used the noise as a
snaredrum and hihat. Same sample, but different
volume-curves.


 

offline nacmat on 2004-05-24 03:53 [#01203832]
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future


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-05-24 03:54 [#01203834]
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did you know that noise = rock?

"Sludgy, abrasive, and punishing, Noise is everything its
name promises, expanding on the music's capacity for sonic
assault while almost entirely rejecting the role of melody
and songcraft. From the ear-splitting, teeth-rattling attack
of Japan's Merzbow to the thick, grinding intensity of
Amphetamine Reptile-label bands like Tar and Vertigo, it's
dark, brutal music that pushes rock to its furthest
extremes. By the end of the '90s, a resurgence in the use of
sine waves ? originally explored by musique concrète
artists in the '50s ? became increasingly frequent among
noise artists such as Otomo Yoshihide.
" - Allmusic.com


 

offline eXXailon from purgatory on 2004-05-24 04:06 [#01203839]
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I only rarely appreciate merzbow'ish noise. (Satanstornade's
'Fend off...' is OK)

Ambient noise, like Tim Hecker's 'Enima' or Signer's 'Light
Fails Me' though, I really like a lot


 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2004-05-24 05:09 [#01203899]
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noise is best "live" it think. When the artist is
in-the-zone so to speak.

Examples i've heard: Whitehouse (power electronics), The
Both People(drones and loops), Sunn-o(drones), Russel Hassle
(laptop static)...... it get really hypnotic when you're at
a venue listening to this stuff.



 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-05-24 05:19 [#01203913]
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I just get tinnitus. And that was from a four tet concert.
His concerts suck.


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-05-24 17:20 [#01205002]
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ha ha mastah

:P


 

offline uzim on 2004-05-24 17:27 [#01205013]
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i hope you heal Drunken Mastah... =(


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-05-24 17:29 [#01205014]
Points: 5437 Status: Regular | Followup to notmyname: #01203818



yeah, no i am aware that some of the people in this thread
listen to other things than that which has been mentioned,
which is why i said "some"... but in any case, your question
is probably more constructive than my disclaimer soo:

stuff that might be construed as "noise" that i really
like:

Poire_Z (which is Erik M, Voice Crack, and Gunter Muller...
they often work seperately... they are all quite nice)
Philip Jeck (not always noisey... but definitely at times)
Z'ev
Nurse With Wound
Hafler Trio
Otomo Yoshihide
Stilluppsteypa
Kevin Drumm
Christian Marclay
Peter Rehberh (aka Pita)
Aki Onda
Hazard
Zoviet*France
Oren Ambarchi
Fennesz
Oval


 

offline X-tomatic from ze war room on 2004-05-24 17:52 [#01205031]
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question: would you consider aphex's "the beauty of being
numb section b" to be noise?


 

offline GIR from Easton on 2004-05-24 18:17 [#01205047]
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indeed....i know some classify
My bloody valentine, Fennesz, and others as noise music.


 


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