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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Low fidelity art

Last post by anusenvy - Today at 08:05:03 PM

Hello all.

There is a New England artist whose work I'm very fond of. The project is TVE. This is his (Seamus) solo endeavor. He is also a part of groups like Lean and performs with Venerate the Plough and such. Met him through noise. Always appreciated having performers sound like this on same show as harsher sounding projects. TVE is all tape related... spliced/overdubbed on dirty tapes/field recordings to dirty tape/etc. At times it just sounds like dirty tape with no sound recording playing. In Lean he typically crudely builds crackle boxes and other such instruments. He also is a visual artist (all releases on his label and his own personal ones are his own art). His label is Ayurvedic Tapes. I'm linking 1 album on bandcamp, 1 album that may be of some interest to this specific forum (discogs), and his label (discogs)

https://tvewaves.bandcamp.com/album/death-sentence

https://www.discogs.com/release/8631653-TVE-Dedicated-To-Heather-Hunter

https://www.discogs.com/label/623815-Ayurvedic-Tapes

I have a very large selection of his solo, duo, and label releases that are not on his Bandcamp. I also have some of his art zines. If interested in any, feel free to DM.
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Interested in learning about similar artists around the world both in visual art and sound art.

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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Industrial / noise / exper...

Last post by whitewinter - Today at 07:43:28 PM

Not sure if many know Italian magazine THE STORMER. Mostly RAC related bands, but few latest issues from 2012 ( I guess #13 is latest?!) includes number of neofolk/martial/industrial groups. Most related to Skull line label. Small xerox magazines, in Finland found from ID10 distro.

Hi, I'm interested in this "The Stormer" 'zines. If you want to sell some issues, then get in touch with me. Thanks!

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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Canon of Power Electronics

Last post by BatteredStatesofEuphoria - Today at 07:37:34 PM

https://special-interests.net/forum/index.php?topic=3724.0

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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Noise about the internet?

Last post by BatteredStatesofEuphoria - Today at 07:33:22 PM

Maybe its just that the Internet is too "easy." The artists of the 80s and 90s had to do all kinds of painstaking thing with primitive techniques like tape and reel-to-reel manipulations, etc. Now you can just open an app on your smartphone and hit record. Of course its not quite that simple, but comparitively, it doesn't seem so impressive. Doesn't mean someone can't do something great with using something like Instagram/Youtube to construct tracks, but the ease of effort involved is going to inherently generate some suspicion with those who have been around for a while.

And that speaks to another aspect of it. The internet is just too NEW for us, too contemporary. This is the world we live in and have known for years. There's no mystery there.

It's kind of like how the early industrial/noise acts would use WW II/Nazi imagery and how it was so shocking for people and it drew them to it. That taboo. Part of that was because it had been 30-40 years prior. People were aware of it, but they hadn't LIVED it. It wasn't their daily reality. But then, I remember back in the early aughts hearing about some band called Columbine, and I just laughed at how inane that was. "That's supposed to be shocking? Why not call yourselves '9/11' so you can be REALLY edgy, instead?" I watched Columbine on TV. There was nothing taboo or mysterious about it. It had just happened barely a few years before. It was still very much the reality of what I knew. Calling a band that wasn't shocking or offensive, it was just dumb and above all, LAZY.

Same with Instagram noise or whatever. Its just too close to the current, mundane world (even if I'm not on it) for it to really have the kind of resonance that Merzbow or whoever taking 10 different sound sources and assembling it all with a tape deck and some cheap electronics back in the 80s is going to have.

So yeah, maybe all this says is that I and everyone else are just old farts. :) I fully realize someone younger might have a totally different view on this.

Perhaps in 50 years "Instagram/Youtube noise" will be the revered pieces that everyone covets while they make fun of whatever's current.

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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Women In Noise? Women Here...

Last post by BatteredStatesofEuphoria - Today at 07:13:34 PM

I inherently mistrust any one who considers either the creation or the consumption of art to be therapeutic.

This seems like an attitude that's going to pretty much dismiss most art, noise or otherwise. Art as catharsis is as old as art itself. Plenty of art is borne out of the artist's pain or trauma and their desire to find some kind of closure or meaning out of it, and plenty of people have used consumed art to help them cope with the vagaries of life.

Now if that's the ONLY thing someone gets out or art, if they're using it as a crutch, then I can understand seeing that with disdain. But art as a way to deal with pain is as authentic and valid as anything else.

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Live Show Announcements / Nuori Veri and Commando 15 in ...

Last post by RURAL RESISTANCE - Today at 06:45:09 PM

NUORI VERI - rural industrial, South-East Finland
https://youtu.be/cTmRivWhUR0?si=x_dvY2OlNJdeOiYx&t=1408

COMMANDO 15 - industrial noise, Ostrobothnia, Finland
https://youtu.be/Os4FjjABqoI?si=WgIgChWzUKUQ0DkA&t=8

We are coming to play a show in Sweden in July 2026 and would like to book one or two more. Both of us will do our own sets despite the collaboration CD that came out recently.

Do you know a person who sets up noise shows? Or do you have a record store, rehearsal space or living room you could invite a bunch of friends to and have us play? Maybe throw the best local projects into the mix, as we would really like to see and hear Swedish noise as well while on the road.

Everything within reasonable driving distance from Stockholm or Göteborg is fine. DIY, FTW! The date in question is Friday 3rd of July. Thursday 2.7. might be doable as well. Get in touch: brownhillmafia@gmail.com

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gear/tech/etc / Re: Weird (but usable!) synthe...

Last post by anusenvy - Today at 06:22:42 PM

This one sounds killer, it reminds me a bit of the random chaotic circuit bending of the Black Death...I assume the samples are being loaded somehow, right? Like through USB or a sim?

I would assume so but in theory some sort of dedicated printable chip like a toy might have for example could be possible but unlikely. Devices I've done similar type of sampling with used SIM and you need to reduce the sound quality of the file before loading to device.

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gear/tech/etc / Re: Weird (but usable!) synthe...

Last post by Into_The_Void - Today at 04:54:02 PM

This one sounds killer, it reminds me a bit of the random chaotic circuit bending of the Black Death...I assume the samples are being loaded somehow, right? Like through USB or a sim?

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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Women In Noise? Women Here...

Last post by Minus1 - Today at 04:14:10 PM

I recent Joensuu show, I talked with couple ladies asking am I seeing wrong, but isn't audience like.. half women? Maybe not mathematically exactly, but close enough to give this impression. It wasn't about girlfriends showing up kind of thing (which is cool too), but everybody actually watching ALL the shows, that consisted pretty much harsh noise.
Evening included one female artist, Nikama. She doesn't have any physical releases. Gigs have been hit & miss, but this particular gig was great!

Week before there was in Helsinki not only Nikama, but female noise artists THE GLORIA. There are plenty of women in the audience.

So, this message replying "women in noise?" - Even if there always is women at shows, at these recent gigs, it seemed as if there was even more than before. Plus every gig having female artists too.

Thanks. Admittedly I'm not...er...getting out much. 😂 (ie Going to Noise Shows). I made assumptions about this (and about the makeup of this forum.) I'm glad to be wrong.

[Wedding Trough aka The Pig Fucking Movie]

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GENERAL VISUAL ART / LITERATURE DISCUSSION / Re: Seen and not seen's, recom...

Last post by SSRI - Today at 10:35:04 AM

Wedding Trough aka The Pig Fucking Movie
No, this is not animal porn but a European b/w art film from the 70s. Yes, there is a simulated sex scene where a guy fucks a pig. I suppose this is very symbolic stuff about loneliness and losing one's mind. Partly hilarious (the dinner table scene with piglets could've been straight from a hundred year old silent comedy), partly cruel and gross and utterly weird all the way. This doesn't really resemble either, but I feel this is coming from the same place as, for example, Eraserhead or Begotten.

9 Songs
I guess the catch here is the unsimulated sex scenes between the actors in a film by an established director. An American woman is staying in London on a job or something. She has a glaciologist boyfriend (maybe something to do with the coldness of human relationships and society?) and they go see shit alternative bands and have sex. That's about it and it is exactly as boring as it sounds.

13 Tzameti
Hey, another movie with a number in its title. A poor immigrant worker comes by a chance across a death game where rich people bet on the lives of the poor. Very suspenseful all through. There's an American remake by the same director titled just 13.