Screw any use of the phrase "beautiful noise" by anyone else, pure noise -- industrial, natural, electronic, visceral, human -- can be as compelling as anything you've ever heard. No one can say "that's not music it's just noise" anymore -- because this stuff really intends to be noise. I leapt into noise as Art in the 90s when I arrived in Los Angeles, and Noise has always been part of the Chill Room, but tonight let's get specific and do a deep listen to what really are some of my favorite sounds EVER. And there are so many different approaches to making this kind of art.
Produced and engineered by dj bennett (chillroom@killradio.org)
Special thanks first to Linda Hayashi, who turned me on to this music, to Damion Romero and Michael B for the first years of Psychotechnics on KXLU-FM, to my live listeners, to killradio.org and to wfmu.org. This program is for education and entertainment. Comments requested.
The Chill Room, 1 February 2013, at 11:00pm PST on killradio.org
160k, 100 minutes, a survey of noise music
Set list: Luciano Berio-Momenti / Kapotte Muziek-RTM27XCA / Asmus Tietchens-Linea / Merzbow-Twitch of the Death Nerve / Merzbow-Aimie Niwa (Music for Bondage Performance) / Merzbow & Kapotte Muziek-Continuum (side one) / THU20-Untitled ("Letter B" from Het Rchief) / Lt. Caramel-Et Sonner Les Cuckoos / The Sodality-And So You Shall / Nurse With Wound and Stereolab-Simple Headphone Mind
To save your purity, you'd go through a bloody ordeal. And so you shall.