Books about noise/experimental music

[Balor/SS1535]

Although looks interesting I am almost sure that if I read it I will understand nothing, haha. Part my bad English, part my ignorance, big part of what it is , as it is stated : "This book aims to introduce the visual and aesthetic elements of industrial culture to a general history of contemporary art by analysing ..." . Book's purpose, I don't care at all.

Also is author having a genuine interest in industrial or was it just a task / research / job ?

Interested to read reviews too, by fans, not 'art' guys.

He seems great to me: https://www.nicolasballet.com/

[Theodore]

Also is author having a genuine interest in industrial or was it just a task / research / job ?

He seems great to me: https://www.nicolasballet.com/

You are right. Seems all of his work is related.

[post-morten]

Also is author having a genuine interest in industrial or was it just a task / research / job ?

Although the book is based on research and interviews done for his PhD dissertation in Art History, I wouldn't say he's a tourist defecting from academia. He's curating exhibitions at Centre Pompidou (one on the NYC No Wave scene recently), he has edited books on GP-O and SRL, and performs with Cent Ans De Solitude. In the video interview he mentioned going to the Wroclaw industrial festival. So yes, his credentials are real.

[Penon]

Not a book but I have only now come across this website - https://www.compulsiononline.com/musicreviewtitlepage.htm

A lot of reviews (of releases and gigs), interviews etc. mainly with old school industrial / experimental artists but also neofolk, some modern (ish) bands etc. Some content appears to be as old as from 80s/90s I think, but there are recent updates as well. Not easy to navigate because I guess design hasn't been updated in over 20 years and e.g. reviews are ordered alphabetically rather than chronologically but content is top notch. Apparently there was also a zine with three volumes - not sure when exactly but given volume one features Jhon Balance, it was quite some time ago...

[theotherjohn]

Nicolas Ballet is doing a tour for his book Shock Factory, starting with a conversation with Ian Trowell (author of the book Throbbing Gristle: An Endless Discontent, also published by Intellect Books) at the Louder Than Words Festival in Manchester UK this Sunday (November 16th). Tickets for it can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shock-factory-the-visual-culture-of-industrial-music-with-nicolas-ballet-tickets-1326393692239

A London date is also happening on December 13th at Rough Trade West with Dorothy Max Prior and Jill Westwood: https://dice.fm/event/mx53vr-nicolas-ballet-in-conversation-signing-13th-dec-rough-trade-west-london-london-tickets

Other dates on the tour as shared on Nicolas Ballet's instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/p/DQWiZLYjxjj/

[burdizzo1]

Not a book but I have only now come across this website - https://www.compulsiononline.com/musicreviewtitlepage.htm

A lot of reviews (of releases and gigs), interviews etc. mainly with old school industrial / experimental artists but also neofolk, some modern (ish) bands etc. Some content appears to be as old as from 80s/90s I think, but there are recent updates as well. Not easy to navigate because I guess design hasn't been updated in over 20 years and e.g. reviews are ordered alphabetically rather than chronologically but content is top notch. Apparently there was also a zine with three volumes - not sure when exactly but given volume one features Jhon Balance, it was quite some time ago...

The 'zine ran in the early to mid '90s for, as you say, three issues. Featured the likes of Coil, Death in June, Whitehouse, Soil Invictus, Grey Area of Mute, Nine Inch Nails, Scorn, Blood Axis, Jim Thirwell, plus articles on other aspects of what would've been termed 'industrial culture' at the time. It was based in Scotland, A5, and definitely a neat little number.

[NedOik]

Curious if anyone has read Ian Trowell's book 'Throbbing Gristle: An Endless Discontent', I am about a third of the way through it and will persevere as having read Simon Ford's book on them - and both GPO's and Cosi's autobiographies - I think it's got something different to say. Although the first section where he lays out his 'methodology' - mostly why another book on TG needs to be written - was a slog which may put people off, and the use of 'ornate' language : "they were coterminious with the first wave of British Punk... and the epiphenomenal emergence of Post-Punk", plus US English (when the author is British) kind of grate on me big time : "instances of cultural unease erupted like jets from a leaky faucet".         

[Minus1]

Sorry if these books are already mentioned and I missed it...

I really appreciate the two Death Squad - Collected Documentation books. They are lavishly produced. Michael Nine gives a very detailed and honest reading of life as an underground / Noise musician. Parts of the books are funny, sad, happy, harrowing, ... And a very excellent 6 CDs plus a DVD accompany the books.

There's a new MK9 book that I might pick up, largely based on what Michael did with these previous books.

I think of Michael as a multimedia guy. Music, tv, and these excellent books that I believe most Noiseheads would relish.