How did you end up making/listening to noise?

[¾ dead]

Some gay, glam-damaged, drug-addicted hot mess with a Skrillex haircut.

The Insane Clown Posse to my trailer trash incest victim-product.

[Pigswill]

I found some groups on MySpace who were into industrial, but everyone had a different definition of what "industrial" was. Some people in those groups were really into bands like Nurse With Wound, Merzbow, and Atrax Morgue specifically, so I gave those a try. They were really different from a lot of the more rock or electronic kinds of "industrial" that I was hearing from the other posters. Those were pretty tough to listen to at first because they were so wild compared to what I was used to, but they had an energy to them that kept me coming back. But god damn, Amlux is such an underrated Merzbow album. The opening track is still one of the most intense tracks I've heard. It demands that you listen to it loud, and when you do, it riles you up. It's a potent aural drug.

I found and joined a bunch of different message boards too, like Litany (Skinny Puppy fan board) and Troniks. Troniks specifically was cool because of the DIY section where people would show off their crazy setups or methods for generating wild sounds. I think I created my first contact mics based on what I was reading on there and seeing how simple they were to make. A lot of posters would also throw their work into a self-promotion section, but they didn't get a lot of attention, so I'd try to listen to some of the sounds there and give feedback if I liked it.

I worked with tracker software for way too long which is basically like filling out Excel spreadsheets. Not exactly the kind of visceral experience that I wanted, though it exposed me to a lot of musique concrete techniques through its extensive use of sampling. I also thought it would be cool to have a modular synth, but because they're so expensive, I ended up getting a bunch of guitar pedals and connecting them in different ways

[PortiaPorcupineFan]

I heard about the Japanese scene from reading interviews with Brutal Truth and Eyehategod circa 1992 to 1995.

I found out about specific acts like Masonna, Solmania, CCCC, Hanatarash, Evil Moisture from Mike Williams first edition once he took over the "Firing Squad" column in "Metal Maniacs" magazine.

I purchased the "Noise War" double cassette from Relapse Records in May of 1995.

I began making tapes with my cheap Shure Prolouge mic plugged into my stereo.

I would do guitar feedback (manipulating it with the aftermarket switches that were in a very shitty guitar that I had at the time.) I would also do feedback loops using a Crate amp and a Death Metal pedal. I did this once with my stereo....and killed it. OOPS!

The rest is history.

[banned]

i couldn't go out dancing anymore and ended up on a commie forum and they suggested i listen to resonance fm. they played sunn, and i joined a music site to find out more about similar bands. after listening to vomir i started using noise blogs, and signed up to troniks after buying some of their tapes.

[iNtox-Z]

I got acquainted with the noise due to the unrequited love for one girl, or rather, i was already familiar with such a performer as Massimo Magrini (Bad Sector), at that time i needed to get distracted and wipe all senses out of my head and i started listening to Merzbow in headphones at full volume, i could listen to it for hours before severe headaches, quite often after several hours of noise therapy i went outside but there was a noise with my head along with textures of various buzzes, then i realized that noise became part of me, i continued to listen Merzbow and got all time auditory hallucination and it helped me a lot as a result. Since then, i became a lover of noise, but in those days i was engaged in other musical directions. Once, several years ago, i was walking on the street and went into an abandoned house to urinate and found a delay pedal. It was an old wet and dirty Yamaha pedal delay DDS-100. I brought her home and after drying i discovered that she was alive! I realized that this is a sign and decided to make noise. After that i began to get acquainted with VKontakte noisemakers and ask them about all kinds of little things, watch their pedals, and ask for advice for the next purchases.
Most of my pedal setup help me collect the Prospekt Bol'shevikov & Psychogenic Pain.
Thus, over the course of a year and a half, i gradually acquired 20 pedals, two synthesizers, a mixing console, a sound card with six inputs, a lot of piezo sensors, a microphone, a guitar amplifier, created two shakers, soldered a crackle box and two kaoss mini pads. Now i feel completely in the grip of noise, and the noise has become controlled subject to me, despite its chaotic structure.

[banned]

bad sector

that's a name i've not heard in ages. sorry you're schiz btw, same here -- kinda anyway -- these days i'm not even really at risk of raising my voice...

[RUBBISH]

Ill add to this as I recall more
Excuse spelling and grammer.


Early days...operation game that buzzes. Would make that buzz until the batteries wore out...I was 3,4...I thought by making it make that sound I could do magic or make my wishes come true. Same age my dad gave me a 45 of Black Sabbath iron man and I'd play the intro over and over. Green sleeves was also a favprite at the time. Cat scratch fever I thought was about cats scratching people and that really appealed to me. I also recall having yelling contests with kids to see who could yell the loudest and longest...I bet the people in the neighborhood loved that.

Later...ages 8 to 10....would record fake radio shows on a tape recorder. Devo and iron maiden and anything on Dr demento.
MTV and nightflight...herbie Hancock rock it video the clash radio clash video.
My older brother moved in with us and Introduces me to RUSH and heavy metal and Crowley and all the other occultness.
Pyromania..as in arsony and vandalism on a more intense scale begins. Prank phone calls daily. Age 10 to 11 I see urgh a music war on nightflight. I'm fucking done...I record it off the tv onto tape in a 'boombox' holding the huge ads thing to the tv...still have that tape...I also for some reason recorded parts of 1984 and had that tape for years and recorded over the years other sounds on it from movies and I may still have that tape. I get into punk rock. Listening to the radio growing up those strange beepings and other odd radio sounds were always fun.... radio going out when you drove under a bridge was always a trip. Age 11 used Christmas money to buy a sex pistols tape...

So...12 to 18...$1 bin was always my first place to look if there wasn't an...alternative...labeled section.
Butthole surfers swamp terrorists ministry all the pragha Kahn stuff kraftwerk NIN anything not fucking hair metal or 70s same old shit.
Compilations cheap ones were always a great buy...got the you'll hate this record record because it had gg allin on it at age 15..had some comps on tape that were experimental or avantguard or whatever but this record has GERMAN SHEPHERDS and PSYCHODRAMA...bands that still today are hardcore fucked up...found a German shepherds 45..thc...around this time.
GG Allin track ...my bloody mutilation on freaks faggots drunks and junkies...total noise PE. Still have that tape 32 years later.
Age 16 I find...peach of immortality - Jehovah my black ass/REM is air supply LP in the dollar bin...I'm fucking done. I'm punk but the punks dont like me I got a shaved head the skinheads fucking hate me I'm punk and for a shaved head and the goths and industrial people dont like me I not into butt rock metal so.the metal heads dont like me...this is it...I can do this...I get more hardcore and do more vandalism and destruction lsd lsd lsd

Industrial culture handbook...noise?
No..experimental or Industrial...what's noise?

17 and 18 to 20 going to local record store a clerk...Jim Kaiser aka petite mal...turns me on to all kinds of things. I take some 45s and use a dremel tool on them and take them to the store to sell...my first noise release..him freaks out. He says do you know the haters...gx juppiter?...of course not. I think the NON section of the Industrial culture handbook is what made me make the anti records. I buy easy listening for iron youth from the Camelot shop at the mall. Jim gets me a show opening for crash worship with 3 other local noise guys who really didn't and never liked me...I was too wild...1992 or 93?..maybe 1991?...would have too look that up.
I was making noise at this time...recording things on a handheld recorder. I also had a Casio cs1 I got when I was 12..
I still have the tapes from this era and I was calling it ALIEN DEATH FORM... Roil and RUBBISH are from late 1993.

I got a hold of these boxes of 50 C10 promo tapes of some lame indie rock band ASH...and made at least 100 tapes and left them all over town. I know of one other existing copy aside from my master copy
RUBBISH - murdered music




The first RUBBISH show opening for MR QUINTRON & MS PUSSYCAT...this went on for 45 or 50 minutes.
And...that video is...not on YouTube. Wtf?

Ok here is the 2nd ever RUBBISH show.
This also went on for near an hour.
Threw out handfulls of joints and Porn.


One page zine I made. 1996
I wonder why I couldn't get shows?

Got this when it came out and it was a huge influence.
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Noise-J ... ase/646212
Collage from 1994 and 95/96

This one goes back to a zine I tried making as a teen just as noise was hitting me.
Added the rubbish later.

That rubbish font...I was look through an old dictionary for words for noise track titles ...I found RUBBISH...and cut it
out.

[pickle]

shorter wind
an arrogance exceeded only by ignorance, or possibly the other way around, a turntable and a microphone

longer wind
to be exhaled at an undetermined juncture

[DEADER GAYER ONLINE]

When I was a kid I had a few tape players and used to constantly mess with them and tapes from staying up all night to record music from radio stations. I was obsessed with trying to slow the stuff down and re record it onto other tapes to make what I called xe2x80x9cghost tapesxe2x80x9d

Later on in life I started fucking with noise from being bored with metal music/harsher electronic music and slowly had a friend in a forum link me blogs showing me a majority of the top tier noise acts and weird fucked up music from around the world. I thought I was a dorky PE person for a year or three before finding American tapes and falling in deep on Michigan based stuff.

As I dove into noise I found an interview with Macronympha where Joseph essentially said that if you were listening to noise then you should be making it and sending him tapes so I took the hint and just started making sound stuff again like I did when I was a kid which turned into a bunch of bullshit that I do now 14/15 years down the line.

[WhiteWarlock]

MEGO Tricorder... My first Tape Recorder... from Xmas 1975???
That machine is most likely my first experience making "Noise Recordings"
All of my tapes from that wayback are long gone.............................................................................................................
Mego Tricorder is currently sitting in my Tape Duplication/Printing workstation in other pictures posted here...
This machine Needs being modified for external input & power supply...
Personally not into keeping batteries in machines anymore because too many have met Corroded Death.
Mine is definitely not in mint collectors condition:P