I was listening to the new WCN episode, with Blood Ties interviews, and Macronympha interview as well as Bloodyminded interview, and made me realize few things. When they were talking how previous Macro show was sonically good, but No Fun was chaotic and full of energy. Or how Solotroff complimented Deathpile live and so on.
Both shows ruled, but how exactly was the NOISE? In Macronympha, almost nothing was plugged in at the end, hah! Most of it was physical chaos and very little to do with sound. Deathpile was strong vocals and the noise was just Connelly doing mixer feedback. There was feedback loop in tiny mixer and he would just push mute between tracks and rest of it was just mixer noise. Violent and broken for sure. But how it really was? Who knows. Too busy in the pit!
Most of the time, I am watching or listening noise. That's why I am there. Or sometimes I am there also meet the people. Eventually it might not be very accurate memories of how the noise was exactly, but the experience overall.
Macronympha and Deathpile at No Fun are indeed some of the best noise gigs where I have been, even when I have no more actual memories how it sounded like and if it was any good. Atmosphere, energy and action made so long lasting impact that it is sort of beyond technical or compositional aspects.
I am sure there are former topics of noise gigs... but was there topic of memorable gigs that made impact even when you really don't know was it "objectively" good noise - in terms of sound or playing?
