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Post by coreopsis on Aug 4, 2008 23:25:53 GMT
As I see it, there are four distinct eras of "noise" music. Era One: Russolo, the Dadaists, and 12 tone/serialists. Era Two: Cage, Xenakis, Stockhausen, Bayle, the Musique Concrete composers. Era Three: Nurse With Wound, Cabaret Voltaire, Whitehouse, Non, Current 93, Boredoms/Hanatrash, Merzbow, Throbbing Gristle and Era Four: everything that is going on right now! I record as Coreopsis and am the link to the outside world for Depression Exorcism (a shady entity located in Intervale, New Hampshire). I like to think that I draw on all of the four eras of "noise" music in my output, although hopefully it isn't derivative. My blog is: coreopsismusic.blogspot.com/Everything on there is to be shared freely! No borders/boundaries!
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Post by thomas on Aug 5, 2008 18:11:56 GMT
As I see it, there are four distinct eras of "noise" music. Era One: Russolo, the Dadaists, and 12 tone/serialists. Era Two: Cage, Xenakis, Stockhausen, Bayle, the Musique Concrete composers. Era Three: Nurse With Wound, Cabaret Voltaire, Whitehouse, Non, Current 93, Boredoms/Hanatrash, Merzbow, Throbbing Gristle and Era Four: everything that is going on right now! What about free jazz (or the 'new thing', as it used to be called)? Whatever criteria we use to judge those genres now commonly referred to as 'noise', the same can easily be applied to the outer limits of jazz. John F. Szwed, writing on the birth pangs of free jazz (in his biography of Sun Ra): "'Noise' was one of the first words which came to mind to many of those who heard Sun Ra's Arkestra in the 1960s. 'Noise' in the abstract, is what scientists call phenomena which is unpredictable, out of control, beyond the system [...] a lack of defined pitch, the presence of disorganized sound, too much volume. But like the word 'madness', it's easy to use, but hard to justify objectively."Szwed compares this movement to the Futurists, saying both held this belief in common: "Noise, they contended, was richer in harmonics than pure sound; and if audiences failed to understand that, they should be trained through concentrated listening to hear the musicality of noise and understand its emotional effect.” (Welcome to the board, by the way )
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Post by coreopsis on Aug 11, 2008 15:11:49 GMT
Excellent point! There are also the distinct threads of free jazz, with the "new thing" vs. Derek Bailey and the european school of free improv. I love it all, and probably only get into the categorizations for the sheer nerd-obsessiveness of the exercise. Thanks for the welcome!
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