Interesting. But I wonder, 100 years on, if it's more noise that we want? I think about how in some ways music isn't nearly as special as it used to be because we hear it constantly when it used to be a rare treat ... and of course we also hear noises constantly - the buzzing of machines, cars passing by, etc - in some ways it seems that this makes one ache for the kind purity of sound that this author dismisses as being old hat ... but I can also see the point of constantly hearing noise making the ear ready to hear symphonies of noise. Anyway - I've done some noise based things before (and listened to quite a bit of Cage, Stravinsky, Schoenberg ... classical music that may be heard as "noise" to people who've only heard Bach) so ... I don't know. I'm going to think about it some more and listen to some noise music and see if any interesting inspiration strikes.
I might skip the theme this time, as I've already made too much noise in the past weeks. Also, had been busy with some traveling, rock-climbing and etc. Might not submit anything at all. Not sure. Lets see...
My contribution this week has some intentional discordance, but it isn't exactly noise. The discordance even has a couple bars of reversed guitar so it would have been great for last week.
I only just saw this theme but I tend to fall under these concepts usually so this week's piece can be a contribution to the theme.
mine is kinda noisy
same here
Check out some of Ablinger's work in noise studies.
Check out some of Ablinger's work in noise studies.
"Sounds are not sounds! They are here to distract the intellect and to soothe the senses. Not once is hearing 'hearing': hearing is that which creates me." Peter Ablinger
damn. this is going to be another rabbit hole isn't it
Yes, yes it is. A worthwhile one though.
This week I joined the challenge
http://weeklybeats.com/#/reptuno%28%3f% o-20140216
On the soft modular kamioooka. Basically 2 lfo with random curves modulating a noise vco and a vcf and some portion of feedback looping.
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Here's mine. Didn't go quite where I expected to. There's a bit more synth action in there than I'd planned but it was built around a loop of background noise made from two different audio recordings last week. The kick drum was initially put in there as a glorified click track but I ended up quite liking it. I smothered it in reverb though in an attempt to emulate a depth charge going off.
Lots of different noises went in to this one...
http://weeklybeats.com/#/datajanitor/music/saturday
not totally happy with all the noises. wanted a more metallic edge than i got.