Provocation in noise

Started by HongKongGoolagong, May 21, 2012, 04:38:14 PM

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ARKHE

Quote from: tiny_tove on May 24, 2012, 09:27:23 AM
Quote from: Brad on May 23, 2012, 10:48:29 AM

http://vimeo.com/42322595


this video could fit straight in the this week pc faggotry discussion

Though it is completely fair to do a public announcement warning for Combichrist and their ilk. Perhaps not for using "shocking" content & language. Can't they just stick to their pseudo-fascist nostalgia?

Goat93

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Quote from: ImpulsyStetoskopu on May 24, 2012, 10:43:57 AM
Quote from: Goat93 on May 24, 2012, 09:16:47 AM
You put Industrial Noise and P:e together. But Noise is not Industrial.

We back to terms and differences between industrial and noise again... I think you mean about industrial avantgarde of rock music when you say "industrial", aren't you? Do you see differences between CABARET VOLTAIRE and SPK? Both is so called industrial, but they created different music, yeah? Do you see differences between NON and The HATERS from beginning of 80s? NON is "industrial" or noise? Not only NOISE comes from dada or krautrock. These genres was main influence for so called industrial too (see for example mentioned CABARET VOLTAIRE, NWW, NEUBAUTENS, BCO, and many, many other, not so much well known projects). NOISE (I usually add INDUSTRIAL yet) is the most extreme sub-genre of INDUSTRIAL MUSIC. I consider such groups like TG, SPK, CAVS, CLOCK DVA, EN, LAIBACH, TEST DEPT as industrial avantgarde of rock music, not INDUSTRIAL MUSIC (though TG used this term for them in 1976).

You write that for NOISE the messege isn't important. I don't think so. Were The NEW BLOCKADERS noise group or industrial? If noise, they used manifestos about anti-art, but this "anti..." was message... They saw in destruction process for tool, method and the value, on the level of creation, and on the level of culture/art. Didn't MERZBOW use a message? His fascination to SCUM idea, dead devices, not-well worked  products of our civilization, and confrontation various cultures what is a source for start destruction everywhere... This was and still is clear message of MERZBOW, doesn't you see that? Is HANATARASH noise or industrial? Doesn't see and hear in his art fascination to destruction? Isn't there any message? Today noise artists? Probably they use more destruction and apocalyptic idea than so called "stars" in history. Death, war, sickness and atrophy are still important sources for many acts, do you want to mention all of them? I don't say that ALL noise artists clearly use this themes or they believe in apocalypse. Many of them don't use that, but, for me, is something like subconscious and multilayered construction in ART as language to communicate between artist and receiver. If VOMIR don't use any messege, this isn't mean for me that his music doesn't describe this state of agony. This is on metaphysical and abstract level.  Why? Because, if artist destroys the sound, changes the real construction and sonic colour, if uses natural or synthetic noise (which is itself an enemy for people considering dangerous for health its technical parameters) this isn't random situation. This has a background...

You Point all to "Music", you ask me about Differences in the Music....but Noise isn't Music, it is Noise. And here we have the Point about it. Noise have not Poped Up after TG get Famous. You can see it with TG (or SPK or or or). First they were Active Art People, later they were Musicians. The Change from Art to just Music came from the Listeners. In my Eyes the "Provocation" and the "Danger" seen from normal Public went down, when an Artist came from Activity and End into Music. But Noise weren't nailed on a single Term or to some Names like Industrial. Btw. When Neubauten maked their Music, Industrial as itself where already dead and Neubauten wheren't Revoluzzer at all, Art Students fits just better. Your Saying about not Accepting a Noise Artist is in my Eyes Contrary to noise itself, you try to nail it to some minimal Topics and try to Classify this with some Projects. But after all, this Artists aren't only focused on some Negative Topics. Merzbow for example went more and more in the opposite Direction within the Music and if you want to nail it really, which Noise Artist is Serious focused in this Topics? Is a English Teacher, who now gives Seminars to Business Class a real Serious Power Electronics Guy? Whats with Euler-Donnersperg or already named Asmus Tietchens or Kontakt der Jünglinge. All not Serious Artists, cause they are not Negative enought?

Take a Whitehouse CD and imagine it without Lyrics, is it Power Electronics anymore? Do you feel a Destructive Message, a Negative Approach from it or is it just....Noise Sounds? As i wrote before you CAN take a Message but you MUSTN'T. And thats quiet a difference. A whole Instrumental SoundScape Album (Without Artwork ect, just the Music itself)  is Serious Noise, but can such a Instrumental Soundscape Album be Power Electronics? And when Yes, why? Its no Provocation on it and you must find out the Message for yourself...or just enjoy the Sound...

But maybe you can tell me which Negative, Sexistic, provocative and Destructive Message have the Black Album from Boyd Rice?

HongKongGoolagong

Quote from: Mme Deficit on May 24, 2012, 04:45:00 AM
Quote from: HongKongGoolagong on May 21, 2012, 04:38:14 PM
"Oh goodness. Well I left my camo trousers at home and am a woman so was instantly alienated by this total cock-fest.

Going back to the original post, I'd just like to wonder why she assumes "being a woman" means she automatically must be offended by "provocative" performances by men. I mean, I was also born with a cunt and it certainly hasn't given me any sort of innate moral superiority: I actually find that Victorian strain of gender-essentialist thinking far more offensive than anything I've read about Best's performance. I also attend "cock-fests" on a regular basis and don't feel alienated at all. To each their own, lady.

I guess she just didn't enjoy the show and then thought for a lame reason to justify the instinctive dislike afterwards. I remember doing this myself when drone act Vibracathedral Orchestra were successful a few years ago, even though I knew the people involved and have enjoyed some of their other stuff it just didn't do it for me. Ended up ranting in clueless way about sell-out and cliche, see ancient Muckraker interview  http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LhuXcQK6rNQ/SYDR4vBq6wI/AAAAAAAAADQ/H08byzICHnA/s1600/m6.jpg - not my finest moment! Still love the Milovan quote though.

Taste and aesthetics are so fucking subjective, we either like something or we don't and our reasons and justifications for it are pretty much bullshit. "The loudest voices getting heard the most" - PB.

Cementimental

Goat93 how come you've randomly capitalised loads of words in your posts?

Goat93

Ok, i think we should Stop Conversation.

Merzbow have no Elements of traditional/psychedelic/rock music. Neubauten are Revoluzzer and Negative, Asmus Tietchens must be Serial killer Fan to be serious but he is Serious cause he makes another kind of Noise, but Noise must be Negative and Destructive to be serious. You can feel the Intention of the Music, even if its just Randomly Noise (as it is often in nOise btw.). Industrial Groups aren't Industrial, cause it fits better with minimal techno....

Sorry Guy, i don't know you and maybe its missreading but your talk here is too much for me :)

So, no offend but we should Stop it seriously.


Cementimental

???? Who are you replying to and what are you on about??

Is this supposed to be ironic/sarcastic? -
QuoteMerzbow have no Elements of traditional/psychedelic/rock music. Neubauten

Goat93

Quote from: Cementimental on May 27, 2012, 12:30:01 PM
???? Who are you replying to and what are you on about??

Is this supposed to be ironic/sarcastic? -
QuoteMerzbow have no Elements of traditional/psychedelic/rock music. Neubauten

I answered to a Post from ImpulsyStetoskopu, but it seems he erased all his Posts. I havn't quoted it like the other ones before, so now my Post doesn't make any Sense at all. Sorry for that.


FreakAnimalFinland

Strange move since he was one of the main spokesman of topic. And I do see the point in most of them, although would not necessary agree. It may be issue of how much you can change the meaning of word/term/genre to your own vision and rejecting what it is generally considered to be?
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ImpulsyStetoskopu

Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on May 27, 2012, 12:45:55 PM
Strange move since he was one of the main spokesman of topic. And I do see the point in most of them, although would not necessary agree. It may be issue of how much you can change the meaning of word/term/genre to your own vision and rejecting what it is generally considered to be?

Exactly, but not only. I erased that because I wrote that to initiate a discussion, not stupid bullshit. Maybe I treated this place so much seriously, nevermind. Anyway, I will try to be more good-tempered in the future.

bitewerksMTB

"Anyway, I will try to be more good-tempered in the future."

Fuck that.

Get angry, get mean, say what you want, and say it MEAN!

HongKongGoolagong

One of the most stunning and memorable noise performances I've ever seen was a Dave Philips set as part of a Schimpfluch joint tour in about 2005. He had a backdrop of abbatoir slaughterhouse and animal experimentation footage, really grim and brutal and bloody material. His sound sources seemed to be entirely contact microphones in and around his mouth which was semi taped shut - he paced around more and more disturbed making incoherent sounds, sounding distressed but unable to speak, discomfort apparent on his face. It came to a climax, sudden stop and a screen appeared on the projector "This is not (just) about animal rights, it is about power differentials" (or something like that).

You couldn't really make light of it, although people tried saying 'who wants a bacon sandwich then, haha'. Unbearably intense and troubling performance. The atmosphere completely changed in the room afterwards. No longer 'those fun crazy Schimpfluch guys' but feelings of upset all round.

Not much interest in animal rights or much 'political' noise here myself but fuck, that was a show which used provocation to full advantage.

FreakAnimalFinland

There is inbuild instinct that most people feel unconfortable with death/torture/mistreatment of innocent. Crying baby sound will be stressful for most, and animals howling from pain perhaps very similar.
Some people may remember "TRUE GORE" video? Monte Cazazza, Psychic TV and the rest involved. While genital piercing rituals and such are like contemporary pop culture now, the footage of animal experiments hardly gets old. It's as brutal as it ever was.
It has probably more to do with people being so distant from it. Either never wanting to really think what their food and clothing supply requires to happen, but also being perhaps unable to see what is honorable & necessary death and what is like cold fun of boys drowning cats. I don't think the death itself would be provocative at all, but the mockery and disrespectful malicious intent suddenly makes it all very disturbing.  I personally don't associated food culture among the malicious intent, but I'm 100% sure, that if one would want to have "negative provocation" within industrial circles, all you need to do is project animal trampling fetish videos on big screen and very very few of the die hard industrial freaks will remain untouched by brutality of it. At least that's my assumption. It would be at the same time tasteless, but also extremely brutal and effective. I'm sure at least some people on the forum are familiar with the genre and don't think there is many who can say they will look at the filth from perspective of pure pleasure. Probably most of all morbid curiosity?
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Andrew McIntosh

Some things just affect people. Cynicism and nervous psuedo-humour are just two examples of how people react. To genuinely allow yourself to feel the inspired emotion is something that may seem uncomfortable to people who don't like having their emotions manipulated, like me, but it's honest.
Shikata ga nai.

HongKongGoolagong

Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on May 28, 2012, 03:10:18 PM
if one would want to have "negative provocation" within industrial circles, all you need to do is project animal trampling fetish videos on big screen and very very few of the die hard industrial freaks will remain untouched by brutality of it.

I thought it was bizarre that Peter Sotos's "Show Adult" (which I think more and more is his best book) received several negative reactions from his tiny fanbase due to the descriptions of animal torture videos in there. They tolerated years of paedophilia, wallowing in racist impulses, depressing toilet sex and all manner of unpleasantness, but for some this was the last straw. 

tisbor

QuoteCrying baby sound will be stressful for most, and animals howling from pain perhaps very similar.

I remember an extremely intoxicated Toby Dammit, on his first public gig, playing high pitch feedback and loops of crying babies. People did throw some glasses at him but i'm not sure this counts as provocation.

Quoteall you need to do is project animal trampling fetish videos on big screen and very very few of the die hard industrial freaks will remain untouched by brutality of it
Yes, i'm absolutely sure of this! Everybody loves cute puppies with big disney eyes, including me of course. Change the object of torture/exploitation to an octopus and most people will magically not be offended anymore.