From Arthur B. Purvis Sent Mon, Dec 29th 1997, 15:19
From Arthur B. Purvis Sent Mon, Dec 29th 1997, 15:19
In the interest of killing the Wire thread, I'll just respond to the
unrelated parts of people's posts.
Sorry to the guy I called a fool, I was in a bit of a bad mood after
reading the kind of inanities that Greg Earle was throwing around.
>> Violent Onsen Geisha, and a few others, when Aube is infinitely more
>> interesting than all of them?
>Please explain *why* Aube is infinitely more interesting than all of
>them, and then how this explanation becomes universal.
Well, I shouldn't have spoken for VOG, b/c I've heard terribly little, but
it sounded like the standard junk music/metal banging that Merzbow's done
for _years._ As for Merzbow himself, he just gets real old, real fast -
one Merzbow CD (since he went "power electronics;" there are more
interesting ones before) is enough for almost anyone (for me, anyways, and
I _like_ noise).
Aube, on the other hand, is all over the map sonically and texturally.
His "gimmick" is to use a single sound source for each recording - the
human heart, electromagnetic spectroscopy, dumb toys, whatever. The
records range from incredibly fucked up, noisy shrieks (albeit with some
kind of organization that you'd never heard in Merzbow, but not really
with a rhythm per se) to very minimal ambience to very rhythmic noise. If
you like musique concrete and electroacoustics, I would recommend
"Magnetostriction" (if you can find it - ltd to 666 many years ago.
Someone lost my copy... grrr) or "Metal de Metal" - they are much more
laid back than the average Aube record. If you're a bit more adventurous,
"Cardiac Strain" is a good one.
>BTW, do you hate musiq.concr. and elec.acoust.? Because I could point you
>to some fantastic releases that I'm sure you would love (Pierre Henry,
>Bernard Parmeggiani, Xenakis, Jonty Harrison, Dennis Smalley...and the
>list goes on).
Not at all; I quite like some of it. I'm unfamiliar with all the people
you listed, with the exception of Henry's awful thing that had Psyche Rock
in it, and a few random Xenakis records, so go ahead, make some
recommendations.
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