«Across the world, musicians are putting aside guitars and amassing technology like junk collectors, modifying, circuit-bending and recombining their equipment in pursuit of ever more deranged effects. Noise has its own message boards, record labels and emerging genre tenets (e.g. improvisation, pedal-hopping and an outré performative bent--it is, in other words, a bona fide scene, one that can be ignored with relative ease, but not dismissed by anyone striving to truly understand the modern musical landscape.
The idea of noise as music isn't new. The avant-garde composer John Cage introduced disharmony into his compositions and debunked the concept of the mistake, "for once something happens, it authentically is." Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music scandalized listeners in the '70s with its amorphous, punishing clangor. But where these were aberrations, noise has now reached a critical mass, and it's hard to conceive of any unbreached extremity».
História no Independent Weekly.

posted by eduardo chagas @ 12.5.06