orangeespoom wrote:How if what is it the fuck!?
Who plays it? Why do you play it? What attracts you to it? Do you prefer performing it or listening to it? What distinguishes good noise music from bad noise music? What kind of gear do you use (don't make this a "post your noise setup thread")? How did you get into noise? What's the deal with all the hardcore porn/sexual imagery in noise music?
Explain this mysterious genre to me!
I just realized that I didn't really answer your questions.
I play noise every now and then, it really depends on my mood. Noise is actually really hard to make well. Because controlled chaos (which is how I like my noise) is really difficult to do. I like both playing and listening to it, but I AM picky about it, because there is a lot of lazy, bad noise out there.
The way I make noise is generally just using combinations of pedals or synths until I get something that sounds chaotic, but beautiful. Then I more or less let the effects take on a life of their own, creating their own sound. But I try to guide it, to something that expresses an emotion or a scene or something like that in my head. That sounds really dumb.
My first real exposure to noise as music was probably the Revolution 9 by the Beatles, when I was a kid. But I really didn't get it at the time. The first time I ever enjoyed something like that was when I saw Nirvana in '93, and they closed the set with about 10 minutes of noise, feedback and trashing the stage. It may seem cliched now, but it was very cool and still sounded musical and expressive.
The one noise piece that always inspired me the most was "Live at Brixton Academy" by Atari Teenage Riot. It BLEW me away. This was ATR's final concert, and rather than play any of their songs, they just blasted the crowd with 26 minutes of white noise rage. If you care to, you can listen to it here: http://www.rhapsody.com/atari-teenage-r ... recordings
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