Couple new ones:
https://soundcloud.com/user-894842639-70919614/women-of-noise-podcast-episode-4-kollahgeIs kind of usual type in this podcast, that when they skip the proper introduction in types of who you are and what you do, it's like talking about Janis Joplin and playing in band doing some sort of punk rooted band music. What she has released? What it is? When? How? I think handful of very basics could be included. Now what I really think... is this even a noise interview?
https://soundcloud.com/user-894842639-70919614/women-of-noise-podcast-episode-v-yotzeret-sheydimThis 5th one is by far the best of the podcasts. While Sheydim kind of replies my remark above, that there will be some dorks who will question if what someone does, is
really noise, and you should just ignore such things. Yeah, I agree, but it is also option to not call non-noise noise. If there is female artists doing melodic keyboard dream pop with little distortion, that may not be noise. This notion doesn't say that it would be shitty, but you might be waiting reaction from wrong crowd?
Sheydim together with Rusalka are probably ones I would associate among the noise as we known it, but hard to say as most interviews in this podcast fail to really discuss much of really noise related things? Some of these other characters interviewed probably not really noise per se, that's the impression I get. Some produce moody atmospheric melodic ambient with whispering voices and such. Some other types of underground music.
With Sheydim, none of the childhood band camp stories, no former collage band recollections, just straight into contact mic's, rat pedals and name dropping Black Leather Jesus. Followed by perfume recipes smelling like gay ass, little more gear talk and little bits of jewish, trans, antifascist & antizionist things.
In some interviews them touch little topic of difficulties/challenges of being women in noise, and Kollahge mentioned that mostly can't think many things what wouldn't apply to people overall. Sure females face few things men don't, but this podcast is quite well displaying how it may not be so much about gender, some challenges may be simply easier or harder depending are you... introverted or extroverted? Latter category is likely to get asked to shows, releases, interview etc. Socially confident, outgoing, easy to talk to, easy to hang out with, friendly and helpful.... and so on. That's probably what will be vastly bigger role to "success" in social noise scene, than anything related to gender issues. It is not even that you'd have to be overly extroverted. Just try to act like human being for amount of time you interact with them. If you are introverted and shy, maybe success may be limited to trading death synth tapes with corpse photos with others like you. If being really good, handful of noise lovers might even buy some.
It is interesting topic, that if "women noise" is somehow different from ehm.. generic noise, is it so different that we acknowledge a lot of people do not think of it as noise? And if so, is it noise? How far from noise it can be until we can conclude this ain't noise?
Like in case of alternative comics, back in the 80's and 90's, over here, it was probably more than 90% male dominated art form. By 90's you had active female comic artists pushing it further and now in 2010 onwards, I'd be sure amount of female artists is bigger than men? Also that this transition made alternative comics vastly better, if you ask me. There are a lot of great female artists now, unlike decades ago. Abundance of techniques, breaking up the template what comics are supposed to be. Story lines vastly different, especially compared to little boys comics I could care less about. If there would be development like that, in noise, I'd be all for it. Great comics, personal outlook, personal "gear" to make it, and so on. I can easily stretch the idea of comics, that there is someone doing emotional diary with one page drawings and text and it qualifies...
But now couple years ago visiting comic festival, and the alternative comics hall was quite dull. No comics. It was mostly trannies selling tote bags and stickers and lectures of trans rights organized by state funded organization. Yeah. Fine with me, but where's the comics? Your tote bags, slogan pins and stickers ain't the "alternative comics" by any stretch of imagination, as dream pop ambient ain't "noise". I doubt this is hateful or disrespectful comment. If someone wants to be respected noise artists, all you got to do is make some good noise and get it out there. Might not be easy, but very much in realms of doable if someone commits to it. If interests are elsewhere, it may be good to pursue that direction?
I keep my fingers crossed that Women in noise podcast will find some moderately extroverted female noise artists to be interviewed.
