MetaFilter posts tagged with noise

The good kind of Noise. And the non-racist kind of White.

wendell — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:16:17 -0800

Simply Noise. Streaming white noise for your auditory zen needs. That is all. That is enough.

Freedom's just another word for never getting paid

klangklangston — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:01:50 -0800

Idle nostalgia led me to check on the mp3 page for Bulb Records (early home of Quintron and Andrew WK).

That all reminded me of space/noise rockers Gravitar, whose drummer Ben Cook has put up a fair amount their music (and other music he's made) for free. Oh, and he has a (rarely updated) music blog, which mentioned the Weird Sound Generator and Noizehole. All told, about three hours of free music.

Not With Reynols

jtron — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:03:22 -0800

I Am Not Sitting In A Room With Reynols. Previously. Related.

Four Score and a terabyte ago&

panoptican — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:23:37 -0800

Spartacus Roosevelt Hour Podcast is a weekly hour of obscure noise, glitchy electropop, fake nostalgia, bastardized exotica, tweaky lounge, creepy ambient and musical non-sequiturs. Also, it features an Alabaman with a Skype account named Spartacus Roosevelt.

Sanriosabbath

geos — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:27:31 -0800

Hello Chococat, Oh No! Doom, Sludge, Noise(warning: ewwtube): the music of Monarch (warning:murdochSpace); they're from Bayonne.

Lou Reed on Lou Reed's 'Metal Machine Music' performed by Zeitkratzer and himself live in 2002

y2karl — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:53:55 -0800

Even if Lou Reed had dropped out of music after the break-up of the Velvet Underground, his name would still be forever etched in the history of rock music. Yet his solo career, filled with eccentric detours and radio-ready rockers in equal measure, remains one of the most fascinating canons in all of rock music. Metal Machine Music, however, is a unique entity in itself, proudly pushing at the very boundaries of what pop music is capable of. Zeitkratzer’s performance not only makes the original album ripe for critical re-evaluation, but it’s a performance that stands on its own ground...

Why Does the Music Have to End?: An Interview with Lou Reed regarding how he came to play Metal Machine Music live in 2002.

Bring on Noise.

bassjump — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:21:11 -0800

Director Henry Bean has written and directed a new movie, Noise. It's about the bad kind of noise: car alarms that won't stop going off, garbage trucks that wake you up, endless horns honking. You know the pain. Turns out Bean used to run his own vigilante campaign against all things intolerably noisy, until he got arrested. In the film, Tim Robbins plays Dave, a character who becomes so obsessed with noise that he turns into a black-clad vigilante, "The Rectifier", waging his own crusade on those damn alarms shattering his quiet. After ending in jail and nearly sinking his marriage, he decides to try to go about his fight legally, collecting signatures for a petition which he hopes will get the issue on the ballot at an upcoming council election. The initiative is hugely popular but is blocked by the city's slimy mayor, played by William Hurt, forcing David to resort to an extreme strategy to make his point. Perhaps some advocacy groups against noise pollution will be happy to see this.

Pachinko! (Bring the Noise).

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:15:37 -0800

Tokyo-Ga: this excerpt from a Wim Wenders film offers an interesting little glimpse into the world of pachinko, a gambling obsession for so many in Japan. But while most are gazing hypnotically into the noisy little machines in order to win prizes or money, others are circuit bending them to make them even noisier. Here's the circuit bending pachinko guy's YouTube Channel: "I am Japanese circuit bender."

HOMOPHONI

hama7 — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:19:19 -0800

HOMOPHONI

Kiiiiiii for any occasion, or just for fun!

CrunchyFrog — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:10:05 -0800

Kiiiiiii for any occasion, or just for fun! Kiiiiiii, that's K & 7i's, is a Japanese girl duo whose sound has been described as "Noise Pop" and "Experimental Fun Music." They've made a couple of bizarre music videos, played concerts in Japan and America over the last seven years, and now have an album and a live DVD. Listen to more on their myspace page, grab an .mp3 and read the history, and try to download 5 .mp3s from their site.