From Solenoid Sent Fri, Jul 31st 1998, 00:13
From Solenoid Sent Fri, Jul 31st 1998, 00:13
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, WARD Giles wrote:
> > i've become more interested in pure noise in the past
> > week or two and don't have much to go on...
> >
> Pure noise? Well.. the hiss you get between FM stations is quite good
> if you're into that kind of thang, but I much prefer the sound of
> short-wave radio being twiddled. Interference on my stereo from minicab
> drivers passing my house is ok sometimes too. The fridge switching on
> and off at my parents house through my stereo there is quite good.
...I've heard that album, and it is really good! That is the last Bernard
Gunter Cd on Table of the Elements label, right? ;-) ;-)
Anyone interested in investigating noise-music should keep in mind that
something like Farmer's Manual is on the rather "synthetic/digital" end of
the scale. There is minimal sonic noise that is also more anonymous in
its' sources, that is to say that the sources may or may not be made with
electronics and/or hi-tech manipulation such as computer editting. Farmers
Manual is sort of making a stand by the default fact that they leave some
rough edges about their digital editting. B Gunter, for instance, does
heavy digital editting (ASR-10 and ProTools last I talked to him), but his
sounds end up feeling more anonymous in terms of their organic or
synthetic origins. An example of organic-type noise might be late 80's
Zoviet-France or DDAA or David Tudor maybe. Other digital-noise might be
Ryoji Ikeda (1000 Fragments) or PBK or recent Asmus Tietchens, often loopy
or cutup type stuff.
Solenoid
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