sorry if this has been posted or if it's better elsewhere, I just came across it and think some of you will enjoy it. an awesome documentary about noise and people who make it. "I don't think it's going to change the world or anything, but it changed my world".
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGrN6PeIiOU[/youtube]
I ate some mushrooms the other night and stayed up listening to my recordings/watching databent visuals and was wondering,going on some weird existential trip,, 'is there anyone out there who will love this as much as I do?' the answer is probably not, but there are definitely other people who love their noise as much as I love mine and that is truly fucking awesome
i'm glad i can call you a friend. even if i'll never see you again
This popped up on the forum over a year ago but it was off youtube for a while. Im not super super into a lot of the harsh noise but I found Yellow Swans because of this and I am forever thankful for that.
If you like it someone else out there probably will too
D.o.S. wrote:I'm fucking stupid and no one should operate under any other premise.
kbithecrowing wrote:This popped up on the forum over a year ago but it was off youtube for a while. Im not super super into a lot of the harsh noise but I found Yellow Swans because of this and I am forever thankful for that.
If you like it someone else out there probably will too
word! yellow swans are the shit.
D.o.S. wrote:I dunno sounds like a lot of aimless shit to me. :surprise:
ha, I can see that. definitely has it's moments tho
i'm glad i can call you a friend. even if i'll never see you again
I thoroughly enjoyed the doc. Watched it about two years ago because my coworker is real into noise. We now get together (like once every two months) to jam. If you can call it that. He does his noise stuff and I play guitar. His is all synth and samples that he then crushes with pedals and feedback loops and tape machines and all sorts of cool stuff. If I'm feeling it I riff out or just do noise, but I'm on guitar and it is genuinely hard to do noise with guitar, at least for me, because it's hard to avoid finding a riff or going to familiar ideas. It's one of my favorite music things that I get to participate in. It's like what I want to do whenever I go jam on jazz stuff with my uncles.
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Suffering suits you.
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The best thing about "noise" is that it can be anything... I just recorded the sunset with some doves cooing and cars driving by through some bit crushed shimmer and it's music to me...
sonidero wrote:The best thing about "noise" is that it can be anything... I just recorded the sunset with some doves cooing and cars driving by through some bit crushed shimmer and it's music to me...
I'd actually love to hear that.
My ethos of noise is play whatever I feel. It's so freeing to not think about it, just feel it. I've spent so many years memorizing crap and trying to remember what notes come next, or how many times we repeat the chorus, or anything like that. It's so great to be rid of that sometimes. Especially when you are able to do something you are really excited about because sometimes I get all weird and abandon normal scales and chords and it isn't anything cool and admittedly sometimes what I feel is just normal music, often the blues (did i just admit that?). Sorry for the ramble, I just really like this doc and it was relatively important in my musical journey, not because it was particularly great, but because it opened my eyes.
Iommic Pope wrote:This is the best you've been.
Suffering suits you.
BitchPudding wrote:Let this be written in our history as proof that ILoveFuzz is one tight knit internet family.
PeteeBee wrote:I just really like this doc and it was relatively important in my musical journey, not because it was particularly great, but because it opened my eyes.
i'm glad i can call you a friend. even if i'll never see you again
Also check out We Don't Care About Music Anyway on Netflix right now (and apparently the trailer below has a link to someplace online you can watch the full movie with commercials)
WE DON'T CARE ABOUT MUSIC ANYWAY follows eight Japanese noise musicians as they perform against Tokyo's urban wasteland and expose the process of their collective musical madness, from scraping a cello's metal spike across broken glass like a DJ scratching a record to taping a microphone to one's chest to improvise around a volatile heartbeat. The film is itself a piece of noise, with a soundtrack that stands alone in it own right, and with cinematography suggesting an impending self-destruction of Japan's consumerist society.
