Noise about the internet?

[Wainhouse]

My mailbox waits for Untitled 11. In the meantime, I had a thought: are there any zines about the internet? Opinions if so?

[Balor/SS1535]

My mailbox waits for Untitled 11. In the meantime, I had a thought: are there any zines about the internet? Opinions if so?

Noise zines specifically?  I don't know.  But if you mean "zines" generally/broadly (and are willing to extend that to blogs----which can be sort of like zines?), then Dennis Cooper's blog is probably the best.

[Wainhouse]

My mailbox waits for Untitled 11. In the meantime, I had a thought: are there any zines about the internet? Opinions if so?

Noise zines specifically?  I don't know.  But if you mean "zines" generally/broadly (and are willing to extend that to blogs----which can be sort of like zines?), then Dennis Cooper's blog is probably the best.

I did mean physical zines. Noise related or otherwise.

Why I asked for zines about the internet - it's because I suspect it unlikely that a physical zine would cover topics of experiencing things on the internet.

I'm looking at Dennis Cooper's blog, but the topics seem to be mostly art criticism and theory (at my first glance). His writing is strong, thank you for the recommendation.

[Theodore]

In all honesty, even after all these posts, i struggle to understand what is noise about internet. Not anyone's fault, i guess the concept is so strange to me i cant grasp it.

Internet is a tool / medium. Each one is using it in different ways according to his needs and interests. So ? What does it mean about internet ? Our 'life' in the internet ? How we use it and spend our time in it ? Hm, dont know. From a point of view it sounds so miserable that it could be fitting. But mostly is so trivial that i would prefer untitled tracks and no artwork instead.

Really, a documented prowl on the streets maybe is trivial as subject as well - i mean, who cares about your daily life ? - but looks far more interesting and exciting than ... Browsing around porn sites.

[Balor/SS1535]

My mailbox waits for Untitled 11. In the meantime, I had a thought: are there any zines about the internet? Opinions if so?

Noise zines specifically?  I don't know.  But if you mean "zines" generally/broadly (and are willing to extend that to blogs----which can be sort of like zines?), then Dennis Cooper's blog is probably the best.

I did mean physical zines. Noise related or otherwise.

Why I asked for zines about the internet - it's because I suspect it unlikely that a physical zine would cover topics of experiencing things on the internet.

I'm looking at Dennis Cooper's blog, but the topics seem to be mostly art criticism and theory (at my first glance). His writing is strong, thank you for the recommendation.

I figured it wouldn't quite be what you were looking for.

(As a side note, the thing about Cooper's blog is that he doesn't really "write" any of it---aside from maybe the "escort" advertisements.  The entire thing is closer to a sprawling collage of stuff he finds online and then juxtaposes in interesting ways.)

[DismalChant]

Maybe something like the project Griefer?

[Johann]

My mailbox waits for Untitled 11. In the meantime, I had a thought: are there any zines about the internet? Opinions if so?

Not related to noise, but specifically to the question at hand. I recently came across a book called "the Internet and everyone" by John Chris Jones that is about early Internet (Jones was born in 1927, and started writing about these ideas as early as the mid 50s) it's an extremely fun and readable book attempting to show the Internet as it was then in 2000.

This is his website if your looking to get an idea www.publicwriting.net

You could also read about Cybernetics which does have some historical cross over into the world of early electronic/experimental music

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On topic I think the Internet as source material has existed since it became a dominant source of content in our lives and was purposely obscured because it may have been seen as taboo in earlier years due to the fetishization of analog sources and content.

It has only been in the last few years I've seen an open acknowledgement of sound sources from stuff such as YouTube etc and mentions of recording to IPhone etc...

Regarding content specifically about internet it seems like some Jilat was doing back in the time on Chondritic Sound forum, I personally was uninterested in his projects and perspectives since he was doing a lot of seemingly computer based extremely long form stuff that might be classified as "pure noise"...I can't honestly speak to if my impressions time time are right or wrong in hindsight as I don't know if he still is involved in sound or the community.