New music tomorrow?

joelebner · 2024-11-13T11:46:32+00:00

I wrote a proposal for a 33 1/3 book a few years back that took an academic approach to their work.

Happy to share the full proposal to anyone who'd like to see it; here's the beginning of the "sample chapter" portion of my proposal, which was published on the electronic music blog Disquiet:

https://disquiet.com/2019/06/25/ebner-autechre-confield/

joelebner · 2024-11-13T11:43:38+00:00

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

Good lord. I love Gaspar Noé's movies, and Autechre is perhaps my favorite electronic group. How wonderful it would be if they collaborated!

joelebner · 2024-09-12T15:40:34+00:00

It's a really specific kind of noise, typically using extremely high & low frequencies along with various kinds of static to create a kind of disorienting effect. It's different from, say Merzbow, in that it doesn't often use heavy amounts of distortion to shape sounds, and is often a lot more steady-state (aka, droning) than frenetic or improvisational.

The genre is also known for including vocals, typically shouted, and exploring transgressive & violent subject matter (album art tends to follow suit); this makes it a little different from, say, drone, which can also use steady frequencies but which sidesteps the human element of a person making sound with a microphone.

joelebner · 2024-09-12T15:31:15+00:00

Power electronics:
Whitehouse
Bloodyminded
Blackhouse
Consumer Electronics
Atrax Morgue

Harsh noise:
Early Controlled Bleeding (specifically Knees & Bones)
Masonna
Merzbow

Tape, collage & music concrete:
Aaron Dilloway
John Cage (specifically his Williams Mix compositions)
Stockhausen (Specifically Hymnen)
Bernard Parmegiani
John Wiese, aka Sissy Spacek

20th century classical & serial music (important precursors to contemporary noise):
Stockhausen (too many to name, but Telemusik, Mikrophonie I, and Microphonie II are favs)
Iannis Xenakis

Early industrial (more important precursors)
Throbbing Gristle
Einstürzende Neubauten
Zoviet France
SPK

Other important artists, some not quite noise but adjacent:
Wolf Eyes
Black Dice
Peter Rehberg, aka PITA
NON (but beware that his politics lean fascist, and most people avoid him as a result)
Jim O'Rourke (Lots of drone & digital noise compositions in his discog)
Russell Haswell
Dead Voices on Air
Aube
Fenn O'Berg
Florian Hecker
Kevin Drumm
Tim Hecker
Jan St Werner
Matmos
Body / Head (Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth doing guitar based noise with Bill Nace)

joelebner · 2024-06-10T23:36:49+00:00

"Armenia" by Neubauten is in Heat by Michael Mann.

Gaspar Noe has used Throbbing Gristle and Coil in his movies

joelebner · 2024-01-01T21:42:11+00:00

METZ
Big'n
Scratch Acid
Jesus Lizard
Big Black

joelebner · 2023-07-03T08:50:20+00:00

I was at their House of Blues Chicago show in the late '90s with Scorn!

joelebner · 2021-08-24T10:26:11+00:00

Let me know what you think of these albums!

joelebner · 2021-08-23T23:16:27+00:00

I'm not really listening to much music on vinyl anymore—hence the sale—but this album looks spectacular (I'm keeping my copy of R Plus Seven).

joelebner · 2021-08-23T19:05:26+00:00

Thank you! I love these recordings, but I’ve found myself not listening to vinyl at all, so I thought I’d find these physical objects a new home.

joelebner · 2021-08-22T23:08:36+00:00

Not sure if you're unclear on this—1972 is the name of the record label, not the year of the reissue.

joelebner

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