29th
THIS IS MUSIC? WHAT
For about four years now I’ve been consistently listening to noise. Noise, as many are aware, is not a genre for the uninitiated. It is not something that you can just pick up out of the blue and start listening to without having a background in some extreme form of music. For me, I was introduced to noise via industrial.
But how does one explain such a genre as noise to a noise (or extreme music, for that matter) virgin? All noisefags have their stories. Parents coming into rooms while Merzbow is blasting, looking both confused and slightly ashamed. Friends raising eyebrows in confusion. It goes on an on.
So, I guess this post isn’t a solution to the problem, so much as it is just a personel expression of my frustration on the matter of explaining noise. How can anyone explain that feedback and breaking objects is “good”? It’s a mindfuck of a task, that’s for sure.
- Mike (dirt piled upon dirt)
