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In celebration of Noisevember, I bring you the Noise Thread, post your shittiest, most depraved, horrible sounds here. Noise I think a lot of people write off noise without really understanding what it is. There's textures and progression and depth in good noise. In some ways it's the complete opposite of electronic dance music: instead of being about a beat, noise is about a texture, a single composite sound that evolves over the runtime of the track. It's the ultimate minimalist musical form, existing independently of different scales or formal ideas about what music is. The modernist composers (Steve Reich, John Cage, Lou Harrison) all experimented with noise and its use in music, but noise entered "popular consciousness" with Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, an album that by all accounts is awful but brought noise to rock musicians, so it holds an important place in music history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYtzNl48F60 Since then, other musicians have started experimenting with pure noise music, lots of it overlapping with post-rock. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIyTXSW2oWw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-FYPTPvqzM But by far the most common noise genre today is electronic noise, fronted by its undisputed and terrifyingly prolific king, Merzbow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AguPH0XBxdw Oddly enough, Japan seems to be the biggest exporter of noise, and they're really good at it. Eventually noise bled into songs with more conventional structures as well, using noise as a part of the emotional progression of a track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cc3Pvc3leI No Wave In the 1970s, an art scene was developing in New York in response and opposition to the new-wave sound brought about by bands like The Talking Heads. No Wave was simple, blunt and brutal; punk without the pretention of musicality, no-wave rejected any attempt to define it, and no-one in the scene cared if anyone cared, but most agreed on one thing: It's kind of hosed up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocrTr56uhyw Though if you have any familiarity with no-wave, it's almost certainly through Sonic Youth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAmWkWZiZ50 Cymbal Monkey fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Nov 11, 2014 |
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Ras Het posted:No Wave isn't really a thing, is it? The original scene was about five bands, who made five decent songs all put together, and I can think of exactly one current band who anyone ever calls "no wavey" (Can Can Heads). It's just this really trivial label that probably came about because some music mags dug Lydia Lunch. Like Britpop or some poo poo. No Wave is kind of a point of interest that a lot of great poo poo grew out of. It in and of itself was a pretty small thing.
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In other news, I recently discovered this weird little Austrian outfit combing harsh noise with ambient, post-rock and hardcore. I loving love it. 
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Dec 3, 2014 22:24
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Gamma Nerd posted:To be fair the mono track is fairly feedbacky formless guitar noise that wouldn't be too out of place on a Jefre Cantu-Ledesma album or something like that. Oh gently caress yes.  This is loving incredible.
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Dec 15, 2014 23:46
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Here's the another Velvet Underground's version of noise. It's... different https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6LLSfk6Jec
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Jan 12, 2015 21:28
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I just stumbled across this noise/power electronics project called Genital Stigmata, it's got some of the most pretentious titles I've ever seen, but I'm actually super keen on this, I love this really dynamic and stuttery poo poo.
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Jul 11, 2015 23:00
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Wampa Stompa posted:This thread seems pretty dead, which is a shame because there's still a lot of good stuff coming out. Pharmakon has two albums out now, and they're both great. Her live shows are kind of hit-or-miss, though; of the three times I saw her, she had really disruptive technical problems twice which effectively torpedoed her performance. The third set was loving rad, though; she ran into the crowd, wrapped her mic cord around some guy's neck, and swung him around into the rest of the folks around him. I loving love how effectively she blends her voice into the noise, this is a fantastic release. Thanks for that. In other news, these were two of my favourite releases of 2015, really good female fronted no-wave. I'm hoping to see more of that this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dSEpQ64KCY Link to Whore Paint's bandcamp, just listen to the whole thing.
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I recently got hold of the promo for the Merzbow Life Performance (1985) reissue and I have to say, I'm really keen. I'm only familiar with and not a fan of his new material, but his old analog stuff is very good. Listen to some of it here!
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Jellidelic posted:
I loving love Dälek, and some of it is absolutely noise. Not super harsh or grating noise, but definitely noise. Really enjoying Oxbow right now as well. Make sure you go to that gig, I'm loving jealous.
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