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GENERAL VISUAL ART / LITERATURE DISCUSSION / Re: my metallurgic nightmares

Last post by groesk - Today at 07:21:38 AM

very surreal collage stuff, makes me wonder how your metalwork incorporates into it. of course i can't use the websites for more than 30 seconds before it wants my information, but its still interesting. do you take pictures of some stuff around your work and then use that as the main visual? it's certainly not what i was expecting.

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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Noise about the internet?

Last post by Balor/SS1535 - Today at 05:01:20 AM

how the origination of power electronics relates to the dissemination of "shock media" like gore videos.  I think there are many potential resonances to be explored, or, more specifically, interpreted out of already existing noise music.

This has always been kind of interesting to me, as someone in my 30's, I grew up with the early internet when these shock sites like rotten and ogrish were pretty popular. The transgressive aspect is kind of lost when its always been so readily available throughout your whole life, compared to the 70s and 80s when you had to actually seek out underground porno tapes or medical journals or whatever to find this stuff. I can definitely still appreciate the pre-2000s noise that made use of this stuff when it took more effort to find, but for more modern projects it can just start to feel goofy and antiquated with how self-serious it is (with some exceptions when there's a really clear motivation or concept behind it).

I am kind of surprised there isn't more noise that takes a more humorous approach though, like Ivan Rex mentioned. Something like Smell & Quim with a focus on internet shock media. The original popularity of a lot of shock sites was for pranks anyways, sending goatse or tubgirl to someone disguised with a link shortener to get them to click on it was always fun.

These things also seem to be treated very differently now because the oversaturation of subcultural things through the Internet.  I think it was not too long ago that I saw Faces of Death receiving a "deluxe" reissue of some kind.  Obviously this is, in part, a reaction against the ephemerality of the Internet through object fetishism, but there is also this weird dimension of wanting to return to the "purer" time of when shock media actually worked.

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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Noise about the internet?

Last post by Balor/SS1535 - Today at 04:54:43 AM

It occured to me earlier today as well that there was a seminar at my university that thought about pre-Internet literature that predicted or otherwise represented models of communication that are relevant in the age of the Internet.  Think, for instance, about how Burrough's cut-ups can be considered a model for hyperlinks.  I would argue that noise music going back to the late 70s has the potential to suggest ways of thought very significant to understanding what the Internet means for culture and society---such as Merzbow's long-running collages of culture in the 1980s, to how the origination of power electronics relates to the dissemination of "shock media" like gore videos.  I think there are many potential resonances to be explored, or, more specifically, interpreted out of already existing noise music.

Your post reminds me of Kenneth Goldsmith, the poet who claimed "[t]he internet is the greatest poem ever written, unreadable mostly because of its size."

Here is the full text: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/70209/i-look-to-theory-only-when-i-realize-that-somebody-has-dedicated-their-entire-life-to-a-question-i-have-only-fleetingly-considered

Very interesting!

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GENERAL VISUAL ART / LITERATURE DISCUSSION / my metallurgic nightmares

Last post by englishwheel - Today at 01:36:00 AM

hi everyone,

i weld as an hobby. i've also begun amateur visuals with linux and open source software.

do you like my crap ?

https://www.instagram.com/mathindustrialart/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61587539007789

noise music inspires me for this shit.

you can hate it i just feel good as i do metalwork when i do those kind of visual stuff.

Best regards.

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NEW RELEASES ANNOUNCEMENTS / Re: PEASANT GOD - Null Demo ta...

Last post by gabalgabow - February 04, 2026, 09:19:36 PM

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NEW RELEASES ANNOUNCEMENTS / Re: PEASANT GOD - Null Demo ta...

Last post by gabalgabow - February 04, 2026, 09:18:50 PM

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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Noise about the internet?

Last post by Bigsby - February 04, 2026, 09:06:18 PM

a student of mine (grade 12, USA), a visual artist nonetheless, recently asked me if I'd ever heard of "that weird thing the Beatles did where they just like took a ton of drugs, cut & pasted a bunch of shit together, and posted it?" 

noise about the internet will be made by people who do not know they're doing it.

[Lovers]

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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REV...

Last post by k.p.g - February 04, 2026, 08:35:17 PM

Lovers - The Carnal Mind / Synthesized and Retuned (Music Lovers Group)
Very lowkey project that has some sort of Dead Gods tie to it.  By far some of the best noise to hold up from that scene's heyday.  It's pretty harsh, pretty crude and pretty odd at points; tons of crunching mic abuse with the subtle synth squeals and feedback begging for air.  It's not reinventing the wheel but rather presenting one of the finer models of wheel that noise can offer.  Since digging this out of my boxes in the last year, it has been one of the most revisited pieces in my collection around this house.  I have to make time soon to give the Small Mercies disc a try, as it's the only other release they did.
I wrote the email that is listed on this cassette a while back to inquire about the future of Lovers, and was asked what my mailing address was.  Nothing ever did turn up, and now that mailing address is no longer mine.  I can only hope they have something kicking around, as stuff like this is just too good to be done after such a short lifespan.

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gear/tech/etc / Re: SP-404 MKII: Tips and Tric...

Last post by Atrophist - February 04, 2026, 02:57:39 PM

What are your overall impressions of working with this model? I had been planning to buy it for a long time, but in the end, my priorities changed. Do you feel that it has too many features, or, on the contrary, has it made your work easier and more interesting? I watched some videos about the MKII, and I find the multicolored lighting very annoying. I wonder if it's possible to reduce the variety of colors in the palette?

Yes, it's possible to adjust the different colors, and from what I remember from trying it, it was rather easy to do. The default colors of Bus 1 (orange) and 2 (teal) are ugly and I was going to change them, but in the end ended just sucking it up, I guess.

There are dozens of different button combos that you need to remember, or more likely look up, in order to access the functions behind them. This is not a unit you can use casually now and then.

There are lots of positives about it, practically unlimited length for a single sample (I think actual max length is 11 minutes per sample), zero cross point eliminates annoying snaps or pops in loops, and the effects are pretty decent, if not great.

The sequencer is a bloody nightmare, but thankfully I don't really need it much anyway.