Quote from: W.K. on April 04, 2021, 10:56:06 PM
What would be your the final or conclusive opinion of the book JLIAT? Did you like it now you've read it? Or are the different chapter to different to each other to give a overall verdict on the book?
Overall -lacked addressing the title.
To be a brief as possible, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone interested in noise music, either from little knowledge or having a keen interest. Though the genre for some covers industrial, power electronics and harsh noise and harsh noise wall, the latter two are IMO sufficiently different, and Hegarty does make that point, i.e. the lack of meaning and even expression. The chapter on tape missing the resurgence of the cassette, there were other omissions, RRR records, Troniks, Hospital Records, No Fun fest ... etc. Many of the chapters were recycled papers so in cases lacked relevance, though the one on Dante and Black Metal was interesting, those on Joy Division and Organum for me lacked relevance. Being an academic working in the humanities is difficult these days. So chapters covering race, gender and ecology are to be expected, as is the pressure to be published as universities get funding on that basis. The final chapter could have been the first, it tackling the seeming real or actual terminus of Noise in Harsh Noise Wall. And perhaps unfortunate as being written prior to the pandemic and its effects on culture as well as the recent political events.
Perhaps the title offered the idea of noise as something essentially nihilistic, which maybe isn't the sort of thing people want, and so was not central in the book.
I'd say a book with something like these topics? Any thoughts?
1. Brief history – From The Art of Noise to Vomir.
2. Methods, equipment, recording, packaging, distribution, performances, merch, zines, blogs and forums.
3. World, flavours – Japanese, European, American, Asia and Australasia...
4. Links with other Arts, politics, life styles.
5. Problems with Definitions & Theory.
6. The Future?
