My listenings today:
AM: CD1 of The New Blockaders, Grinder-without-Organs, The Theatrical Panopticon:
The Stage As Antiworld (2CD).
PM: CD2 of The Above.
I'm cheating again. This is not Noise. Well, there's elements of Noise on CD1. But this really is Experimental. Or in my jargon, Wonderfully Weird.
Fuck I love this! 😂
CD1 sees a 60min thing with TNB/GWO collaboration. I need to research GWO so bad. The first half is dominated by voices - maybe in a train station or something - plenty of kids. Over these voices are various sounds - fiddles, strings being plucked, various junky bits, very sparsly arranged, by The Rupenuseses no doubt. But the voices intensify - and it becomes Wall Of Voice for a while - fucking brilliant. Then that dies down at around 30min - then other strange things happen - overlayed processed speech - other Noisings. By 45min things fall silent - almost. An ambient din? Live audience clapping/shouting here and there. And then it ends.
Sounds too Weird? CD2 is not for you then. 😂 Two 30min ish pieces up the Weird ante considerably. GWO presents some sort of....er...play. It's very well rehearsed/deliberate. There's music/sound too. It is purposely directionless at the same time. I think. I loved it!
We end with The Theatrical Panopticon, (whom I must also investigate), which seems to be a group debating/discussing stage direction, a play, Art, maybe...perhaps??
I dunno. This is my first day with this crazy, lovely thing. John Cage would be proud. I love Weird as much as Noise, when done well. And this release is fantastic, imho.
The whole thing is dedicated to Laurel and Hardy and Crass. How beautiful. 😂
There's videos of some of this. Perhaps I'll add that in an edit.