Thread: Noise Rock?

Not sure i'd call some of those bands on that list in wikipedia noise. I don't even recognise half of them, but i don't think Ruins are noise at all, for example. Anyway, that doesn't matter.

I'm not sure about noise rock, but i do like some music that would be seen as noise/drone type stuff. Sunn O))) for example (Merzbow has collaborated with them) is decent stuff, Borbetomagus (free jazz/noise) sounds real good, and some of John Zorn's free improv is fantastic. I also find myself strangely attracted to Masonna, if i'm in the right mood.

The thing about that kind of music is that it's not conventional music in that melody plays little or no part in it, but what a lot of people don't appreciate is that it still has a certain vibe to it, a certain draw, that melody can't achieve. And i think that's why a lot of people might be hesitant to say they enjoy such music, but can't deny that part of them is drawn to it. There's just something unique that speaks to a part of us (or me anyway) in a weird way. You said it great when you said "texture". That's what it's all about i think.

Weird!!!!! Absolutely weird!

Though I did find listening to Stimbox funny, and that guy in prurient must be on something...

Prurient is strange as hell lol...and Masonna throwsdown sort-of...the one interview on here he says he gets hurt every live show. Masonna Live...

Yah Ardent I noticed not all those bands are really "noise", wiki might have jst listed all bands that use even some "noise" as part of a song or 2.

I like some sonic youth stuff...not sure if that is full-fledged noise rock.

I may be fucking insane, but if you kinda just listen to the noise music, but not in the conventional "listening" way...but kinda different, just kinda like "listen past the music man..." its kinda interesting...
Brian Eno says you can hear songs within the noise music, and he's a producer maybe im not insane


no...yah i read that over and I am insane.

I don't think it matters who says what about it. If you like listening to it you like listening to it. As far as i'm concerned there's some good music out there that a lot of people wouldn't call music, rather random noise. But i listen to it and i feel things from it, and that's good enough for me. Music is relative. Beauty is in the ear of the listener, so to speak. Some people think music has to contain melody and structure, others are content to call complete silence music.

If that's insane, i better head off to a mental hospital

Ah, wow
I love noise !!
makes real music sound *even* better

now, I'm not one to denounce people's music, usually
as someone above me said
beauty is in the ear of the listener

usually....

but seriously, wtf is wrong with you all

Try This Instead it's less likely to scare your cat

If you want some proper noise, check out the Art of Noise

Yah ynot...I'm thinking insanity is paramount for noiserock that or pretentiousness..

But going by that theory means that music is an intellectual tool or something. You don't have to be insane for noise to appeal to you. It just means you have the ability to put conventionality aside and let the music reach a part of you that 'rational' music can't.

And Ynot, Tower of Power are cool, and while that was a real cool song, it still can't make me feel the same way as more unconventional music can. I'm not saying noise is necessarily better, nor that funk/fusion or any other style is better than noise. They're all good in their own right.

on a sort of noise tip

Ynot - Spectral Climatix

Is a sort of test track of mine, playing around with the digital delay

Was trying to figure out a set of rules / formulas for making the decays fall on beat (rather than on some sort of ad-hoc trial and error basis)
needless to say, it didn't work

Masonna - Frequencey L.S.D. 13
That's about as noise as it gets Something i don't listen to often, but occasionally.

Or for something a little more barable - noise infused electronica i just discovered
Diana Behlke

Ardentlost:

But going by that theory means that music is an intellectual tool or something. You don't have to be insane for noise to appeal to you. It just means you have the ability to put conventionality aside and let the music reach a part of you that 'rational' music can't.[/b]

yah exactly...I am a fan of noise btw i just say things like "insanity is paramount" only partially serious and partly to bump my topic !

...let the music reach a part of you that 'rational' music can't.[/b]

exactly!!!


btw that's awsome I was hoping someone else would know of someone like masonna here! btw other than masonna do you listen to anyone else when you listen to noise? (yah i can't listen to it all the time or anything either)

((btw did you see the youtube masonna live i posted a few posts up?...he is a character...))

It just says "no video found"

Well if you mean strictly noise, there aren't a lot of artists i listen to. But i do like some Sunn O))), which is noise but not really violent, more drone oriented. A lot like a smiliar band Earth, who were supposedly pioneers of the drone style. I'm also really interested in Borbetomagus who blend free jazz and noise. Very vibrant, schizophrenic type stuff.

Apart from noise i'm really interested in experimental music in general, like free improv. Derek Bailey, John Zorn, Fred Frith, that kind of stuff. You know, not noise specifically, as in the genre, but based on similar ideas - texture rather than melody or rhythm.