Hashtag blacknoise
Bio
hashtag_blacknoise is the solo noise/experimental music project of sound artist Jacques van Zyl
In a profoundly unsilent world, noise stands in for silence. Amplified to a roar, stretched, compressed and filtered, it becomes a thundering black backdrop to how small experience becomes by having to filter out essential detail.
On the other hand, black noise is a space – the negative roar left behind after the sudden ending of any continuous sound field or experience. It's not unlike the state sought in the practice of meditation, but more immanent and beyond one's control – and commonly only of short duration.
hashtag_blacknoise is a performative investigation into these unsilent silences.
He forms part of a number of experimental sound collectives, notably Ski Crime, Gwaing, and Coffin Soup, and has worked with a growing number of visual and sound artists, notably Minnette Vari, Belinda Blignaut, Mia Thom, Jason Stapleton, and Vanessa Lorenzo.
Members
Jacques van Zyl
Gear
Proto-electronics (self-built and designed electronic nerve nets, filters, effects units, distortion pedals, and cracked toy microprocessors,) laptop (Pure Data, Hamradio, and Audacity mainly), iMac (SpongeFork mainly), and contact microphones.
Discography
hashtag_khoe
DJRY
SLOW RAIN
TONE CHEESE
Loon passing Saturn
EVOL // 19.11.13
Reflectance
20200212
three measures life
bellan
A7575sEt
gwAiSYNC
f#ckface_aNthem
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes
mirai
hinnom
aparting
another
Contact
hashtagblacknoise@gmail.com
