Steve Reich - Different Trains (Part I)

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Noise is...

"Noise serves as a chronometric marker and carrier. By distancing us from the event, noise tends toward the quality of memory."

"While the sounds of particular noises (e.g., turntable rumble) may be historically referential, their inherent effect as noises also locates the signal in the past described above-a generic rather than chronologically specific one. A noisy signal finds itself in an eternal, absolute, and ageless past. Its tethering to that generic foretime induces the experience of a further vivid component of noised listening. Namely, noise evokes origin. As a layer between listener/
document and document/event, noise forms a substantive thread from the scene of the event to that of the listener and back. Noise incites the listener's attention back towards the object, inviting our participation in the derivation of our experience. By manifesting the cardinal quality of inception in the motivation towards it, noise fosters the encounter with the primacy itself of a "source.""

"[N]oise is the suggestion of signification beneath a non-signifying agency. Noise is a style of distance-a distance that can be meaningfully confused or exchanged with location, memory, presence, absence, temporality, and experience."

All quotes and illustrations from:

Title: The Work of Reproduction in the Mechanical Aging of an Art: Listening to Noise
Author(s): Stan Link
Source: Computer Music Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1, Aesthetics in Computer Music (Spring, 2001),
pp. 34-47
Published by: The MIT Press

Russolo's inspiration from The Art of Noises next to Stein's Two:

The Art of Noise or The Art of Noises here

... "we want to score and regulate harmonically and rhythmically these most varied noises" (war noises). War was Russolo's original inspiration.

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Re- reading Russolo's manifesto, I feel how sad it is that he wanted so much to score the sounds of war -the 2,000 grenades the violence the 'ear scent drink of it all '... at the same time in France, (Russolo wrote this in Rome on March 19 1913 after a 'battle' in the Constanzi Theater in Rome) ... Gertrude Stein was writing

‘Sound is coming out of her. Sound has been coming out of her. Sound can come out of her.

Sound coming out of her is coming out of her and she has not been hearing not been hearing the sound that has been coming out of her. Sound has come out of her and she is listening and sound can come out of her.

Sound comes out of her. Sound coming out of her is expressing that thing, is saying something. Sound coming out of her is expressing something, is saying anything. Sound coming out of her is expressing everything, is saying everything. Sound is coming out of her. Sound has been coming out of her. Some sound comes out of her. Sound comes out of her.

If sound comes out of her it is a sound that expresses that thing expresses sound coming out of her. Sound does come out of her. Sound coming out of her does express this thing does express sound coming out of her.

Sound coming out of her comes out of her and is expressing sound coming out of her. Expressing sound coming out of her is something sound coming out of her is doing. Sound coming out of her is something. Sound is coming out of her. from Two: Gertrude Stein and her Brother

.... and sticking it to Descarte through 'I sound therefore I am'

Mattin -- Noise and Capitalism mmmmmmmm...

Theses on Noise

I

What the fuck is Noise?

Precisely because of its indeterminacy noise is the most sensuous human activity / practice. To try to fix it or to make it a genre is as fucked up as believing in democracy.


II

If you make noise it is likely that somebody else is going to hear you, this means Noise is a social activity.


III

The capacity to make Noise is available to all, but its revolutionary potential comes from those who want to disturb the commodification of Noise - as M.A.N point out in their website www.mothersagainstnoise.us.


IV

To say “this is good Noise� or “that is bad Noise� is to miss the point.


V

Noise without meaning nor finality is revolutionary as long as it does not support anything or anybody.


VI

This is not to say that Noise under capitalism can be an autonomous activity. But if neither language nor bombs help you to destroy our reality, Noise helps us to get rid of our anxiety.


VII

It is more important to fuck the minds of the audience than to fuck your ears - and vice versa.


VIII

The identity process that occurs as people are making Noise must be constantly rejected. To be a “Noisician� is even more pathetic than to be a “musician�.

IX

Factory workers in the previous centuries have indirectly been the most sustained and brutal players of Noise. Recognition of our past should always be present.


X

Economic exploitation still occurs, even if now the production of Noise does not produce an object. The process of Noise making has in itself become the object of financial and symbolic market value.


XI

The old conception of noise was to believe in freedom, the new conception of Noise is to achieve freedom.


by Mattin www.mattin.org

25th May 2006, London

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