Noise about … ”life” ?

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Hoping not to totally flood the WCN thread, but another topic I was thinking while listening to Slacking episode was two things.
One was discussion of vocals in noise. How there isn't a lot of vocals in noise, in kind of odd 90's style. Emil Beaulieau was mentioned. How they actually talked about it, check out the episode. I think it may be true as guys like RRRon didn't come from punk, metal or such, and idea of vocals in noise wasn't all about raw scream and guttural roar. There is topic elsewhere about weird PE vocals, so that is not really what I want to focus.

Another topic, what was discussed was noise releases what focus on themes that are.. "normal", common things. I recal Oskar mentioned for example relationships.
While I am not really advocate of noise dealing with mundane life, so to say, I feel there must be lots of it? Or perhaps, some people the "relationships" or the normal day-to-day life is something that there is not such a big difference to noise content in general?

Still, combining these two, was just listening the Jojo Hiroshige 1999 CD on Alchemy. That's the debut solo album, where he only does the Hijokaidan type guitar abuse, in totally clean studio recording. In some tracks, on top of that guitar noise Jojo shouts kind of emotional poetic texts revolving around... what I'd assume to be desperate (teenage) love?

There is the Monde Bruits CD on Alchemy, where MB plays cover song from this Jojo Hiroshige CD. In liner notes Jojo says he was little ashamed about request could MB play this song, as lyrics were what they were. Kind of clumsy desperate teenage emotions. Of course he was not teenager anymore when he wrote, but my impression was that it was something personal, something he had experienced and felt as youngster?

Thanks to translate apps on phone, now can read, slightly crude translations of japanese noise releases. One of the lyrics of this CD, with help of rough google translate goes something like this:

just a little more
because it's something
you want
so a little more
Stay like this
just a little more
please
It's okay if things go bad like this
just a little more
let me stay in this time
stay by my side just a little longer
I'm begging you
Because I'm just lonely tomorrow
If you say die, you die
Let me stay like this for just a little longer
I don't care anymore
I gave up on everything
I knew it was going to happen from the beginning
I can't help but be alive
so a little more
Let me stay like this for just a little longer
I'm just sad that tomorrow has come
If you say die, you die
Let me stay like this for just a little longer



I am sure there is plenty of "personal" and plenty of daily life content in noise. How it differs from other noise, I am not entirely sure. But if we look it from stereotypical perspective, maybe less of corpsefucking, more of ode to women of your life. Haha..

Anyways, any releases, artists, who feel like using noise in dealing with things normally associated with life, in good way. Perhaps vocal experessions that are then also something else than screaming your lungs out?

[tisbor]

Can't really think of much "mundane" noise besides great Incapacitants titles or similar things. Perhaps my friend PGR recording harsh noise about his vacations or the time he watched my cats and my house for 10 days (he recorded using my gear during those days!), those are both fun.
Lots of my material  and lyrics are personal and intimate though, especially Taeter, but I guess that doesn't always comes out as such. Maybe that's the case with more of us?

[Andrew McIntosh]

Surely there's a twenty volume Wall Noise ode to getting the train to and from work every day by now?

[W.K.]

Jason Crumer and Cremation Lily come first to mind, but the question then is, is it about life or about the mundanity of life?

What about Himukalt, her works are based around her own life experiences right? Or isn't that what you mean?

[PTM Jim]

Early Prurient was pretty much all about the dread of mundane things.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

her works are based around her own life experiences right? Or isn't that what you mean?

Well, I think for example a lot of Bizarre Uproar is "based around own life experiences", but idea for topic was that WCN podcast discussion, where was brief discussion of noise that wouldn't be... I don't remember how it was formulated. I would assume not transgressive, not anything vile.

About emotions, "normal" life, that kind of things.

Lets say THE NEW BOYFRIENDS track title Guys of Summer. It feels like harsh noise about friendship and summer! Content, that may be personal, important and presents even feeling to listener. Harsh noise out of uplifting joy and energy and it bleeds into how it sounds.

[Baglady]

HEINZ HOPF has always been about singing the praise of life in the neighborhood, basically. Tracks about the local pizza restaurant (Slice), the oddball person in the neighborhood (Ryssen), the clientele at the favorite waterhole (Alysas Juveler), cop sirens from the street below (Snutraffel på Lars Kaggs) etc. And ofcourse a track or two about Incapacitants to liven it up a bit.

[Bleak Existence]

my favorite subject in noise - mundane

[Andrew McIntosh]

https://dumpsterscore.bandcamp.com/track/life

[tisbor]

Lets say THE NEW BOYFRIENDS track title Guys of Summer. It feels like harsh noise about friendship and summer! Content, that may be personal, important and presents even feeling to listener. Harsh noise out of uplifting joy and energy and it bleeds into how it sounds.

YES! Very mundane project, if you skip the implied homoeroticism

https://dumpsterscore.bandcamp.com/track/life

Happiest everyday experiences

[Bloated Slutbag]

Hoping not to totally flood the WCN thread, but another topic I was thinking while listening to Slacking episode was two things.
One was discussion of vocals in noise. How there isn't a lot of vocals in noise, in kind of odd 90's style. Emil Beaulieau was mentioned. How they actually talked about it, check out the episode. I think it may be true as guys like RRRon didn't come from punk, metal or such, and idea of vocals in noise wasn't all about raw scream and guttural roar. There is topic elsewhere about weird PE vocals, so that is not really what I want to focus.

Another topic, what was discussed was noise releases what focus on themes that are.. "normal", common things. I recal Oskar mentioned for example relationships.
While I am not really advocate of noise dealing with mundane life, so to say, I feel there must be lots of it? Or perhaps, some people the "relationships" or the normal day-to-day life is something that there is not such a big difference to noise content in general?

Still, combining these two, was just listening the Jojo Hiroshige 1999 CD on Alchemy. That's the debut solo album, where he only does the Hijokaidan type guitar abuse, in totally clean studio recording. In some tracks, on top of that guitar noise Jojo shouts kind of emotional poetic texts revolving around... what I'd assume to be desperate (teenage) love?

There is the Monde Bruits CD on Alchemy, where MB plays cover song from this Jojo Hiroshige CD. In liner notes Jojo says he was little ashamed about request could MB play this song, as lyrics were what they were. Kind of clumsy desperate teenage emotions. Of course he was not teenager anymore when he wrote, but my impression was that it was something personal, something he had experienced and felt as youngster?

Thanks to translate apps on phone, now can read, slightly crude translations of japanese noise releases. One of the lyrics of this CD, with help of rough google translate goes something like this:

just a little more
because it's something
you want
so a little more
Stay like this
just a little more
please
It's okay if things go bad like this
just a little more
let me stay in this time
stay by my side just a little longer
I'm begging you
Because I'm just lonely tomorrow
If you say die, you die
Let me stay like this for just a little longer
I don't care anymore
I gave up on everything
I knew it was going to happen from the beginning
I can't help but be alive
so a little more
Let me stay like this for just a little longer
I'm just sad that tomorrow has come
If you say die, you die
Let me stay like this for just a little longer



I am sure there is plenty of "personal" and plenty of daily life content in noise. How it differs from other noise, I am not entirely sure. But if we look it from stereotypical perspective, maybe less of corpsefucking, more of ode to women of your life. Haha..

My read on the lyrics (partly informed I'll confess by a couple of conversations with locals with very little knowledge of the persons involved) is something like, the expression of a hope that an evidently dying person might hang on just that mite longer. This much at the very least would seem to be clearly expressed in the track title. Please...hang on...just a bit longer. Which works for me, in the context of the much more negatory coda, which completes  the trilogy, with the elsewhere mentioned Hell!.

Read into it, or don't. But if by life we are to implicitly acknowledge death, okay then.