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Bunbury 01.18.2007 08:43 PM

How-To: Noise/Performance Art.
 
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!@#$%! 01.18.2007 09:19 PM

well you could (just saying) eat a bag, yes, eat a bag! that would be a performance for which you seem quite fit. do! do! the soundtrack would be just, eh, accessory. i know you didn't ask me but i thought i'd chime in regardless.

 


http://www.eatabagofdicks.com/

si?????

ALIEN ANAL 01.18.2007 09:27 PM

is this like asking how to paint an abstract painting?

SpectralJulianIsNotDead 01.19.2007 01:07 AM

Performance art is about coming up with your own ideas and executing them. There are a million different ways to make noise.

kingcoffee 01.19.2007 02:38 AM

Just smash and grind a guitar against the ground, amp, walls etc. Noise isn't hard to make. It's just noise.

atsonicpark 01.20.2007 11:28 PM

Cool, I'm noise elite!

Haha..

Anyway:

Do whatever you feel is necessary. Experimentation is the key.

Sorry, but that's all I can say!

Norma J 01.21.2007 12:00 AM

If you're having to ask how to create avant garde art, then perhaps you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. Asking how is missing the whole beauty and meaning of it.

Toilet & Bowels 01.21.2007 12:24 AM

fucking students

Dead-Air 01.21.2007 12:29 AM

This must be a joke?

terminal pharmacy 01.21.2007 02:53 AM

pseudo

sudo

having a concept would be a good starting point then maybe some structure

atsonicpark 01.21.2007 04:21 AM

couldn'tasaiditbettermahself.

_slavo_ 01.21.2007 06:13 AM

or just stick a mic into your mouth, scream the fuck out of yourself and run the signal through 1000 effects and the result is satisfying, since voicebox is an ultimate sound source.

compulsive diarrhea, jico 01.21.2007 08:54 AM

get a mic, a metal plate and a distortion pedal and improvise on that:
 

Glice 01.21.2007 09:10 AM

I would say try and listen critically to a lot of the current [cough] 'experimental' [cough] 'noise' scene and notice that a great deal of them, in spite of the 'freedom' rhetoric thrown at it, are doing very similar things. Try not to do that.

atsonicpark 01.21.2007 09:12 AM

Most importantly: have fun.

porkmarras 01.21.2007 09:15 AM

Make sure that you announce gigs and records that will never happen on labels that exist only by name.If you announce that you're performing somewhere,do make sure to hand out leaflets and posters but go to do some shopping therapy with your mates instead.When you get found out simply go on a lenghty and meaningless rant about why you did it and try to be as convincing as you can even if it means giving head here and there.

Danny Himself 01.21.2007 01:25 PM

Metal sheeting is always fun to hit with mallets. I'd say move away fromthe electronic stuff and just find things that sound awesome when you hit them.

Danny Himself 01.21.2007 01:40 PM

It would be good to get some old radios from a thrift store, amp them up and just tune them to dead radio space. It sounds very cool and you could manipulate it with a wah or something, I suppose.

king_buzzo 01.21.2007 01:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bunbury
since i have been getting so involved in campus life lately (dont even reCOGnize myself anymore), i want to stART doing these sudo performance art/noise open mic's but i dont even know where to begin w/ the actual (electronic) noise making...

thought about banging pots & pans, but decided that was too Dada/unoriginal and cheesey.

are guitar pedals mainly used? i have accsess to a friends overdrive pedal, amp, guitar(s) and bass...

[almost] any help is appreciated.
im looking in yr direction Golden Child, atsonicpark, sway, everyneruotic, CHOUT,tokolosh?...

AKA

I dont really need any CONceptualization help... just refrain from telling me to moan while stroking a guitar as if i were giving it a hand job... i would never and besides some dumb cunt who thinks shes so "edgy" already does that cliche.


crank amp, turn on more gain pedals at once, and then some modulation , then just wait, wack the guitar with stuff. also use slides, anything you can find around your house, like cards and pickscrape, use drumsticks and change pickup configurations. take some screws and put them on you pickups...

if you can put on a laptop thats conected to network, and put your guitar close to it, its awesome, the guitar recieves the signal. you can also do this with radios..... also get some remote controls and press the buttons....

best effects for noise are like i said a lot of dist pedals turned on at once. but also use modulation, phaser tremolo, wah....


what guitar do you have? pedals?

Danny Himself 01.21.2007 04:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bunbury
I actually really like this idea my little candy raver boy (i forgive you for the whole ice cream thing).
except i think i would rather do it w/ tv static and that this is a recording tone...


I go to raves!?

TV static would be a good idea as you could borrow some TVs and set them out on stage. Lee Ranaldo used to do shows like that in the mid-80s. Or so his books say..

porkmarras 01.21.2007 05:02 PM

What an original idea!Not that a trillion people living in squats around the world haven't thought of that before.

noumenal 01.21.2007 05:16 PM

If you really want to shock and move people, you should find three other members and form a barbershop quartet or doo-wop group. Vocal harmony. Give yourself a name like "The ______s" and practice everyday for a couple hours. Develop a repertoire of classic tunes and then write your own songs in highly virtuosic chromatic four-part harmony. But this is important: wait until you have perfected your ensemble, intonation, and so on before you perform. The exhibition of finely-sculpted musicianship will be more shocking and moving than some display of a shit-eating scream-fest, any day.

Mmmm, a folk trio would also be good.

Norma J 01.21.2007 05:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by noumenal
If you really want to shock and move people, you should find three other members and form a barbershop quartet or doo-wop group. Vocal harmony. Give yourself a name like "The ______s" and practice everyday for a couple hours. Develop a repertoire of classic tunes and then write your own songs in highly virtuosic chromatic four-part harmony. But this is important: wait until you have perfected your ensemble, intonation, and so on before you perform. The exhibition of finely-sculpted musicianship will be more shocking and moving than some display of a shit-eating scream-fest, any day.

Mmmm, a folk trio would also be good.


HAHA. Brilliant. And so true.

Danny Himself 01.21.2007 06:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by noumenal
Give yourself a name like "The ______s" and practice everyday for a couple hours. .


The Uncircumsized Dicks was always an imaginary band name I liked.

noumenal 01.21.2007 06:13 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_doo_wop_musicians



 

Danny Himself 01.21.2007 06:16 PM

Meh, I don't know... matching waistcoasts would be better.

Dead-Air 01.21.2007 07:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by noumenal
If you really want to shock and move people, you should find three other members and form a barbershop quartet or doo-wop group. Vocal harmony. Give yourself a name like "The ______s" and practice everyday for a couple hours. Develop a repertoire of classic tunes and then write your own songs in highly virtuosic chromatic four-part harmony. But this is important: wait until you have perfected your ensemble, intonation, and so on before you perform. The exhibition of finely-sculpted musicianship will be more shocking and moving than some display of a shit-eating scream-fest, any day.


I do love this concept. I think "The Power Violences" would be the perfect name for this barbershop quartet.

!@#$%! 01.22.2007 02:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by compulsive diarrhea, jico
get a mic, a metal plate and a distortion pedal and improvise on that:

 


replace candle w/ microphone

record for 24 hours

audience drifts in & out.

performance art.

Tokolosh 01.22.2007 03:59 AM

 


Who was it that said Kern's Photography isn't esthetic? :rolleyes:

Richard Pryor on Fire 01.23.2007 03:24 PM

This fourum has become increasingly more dangerous to view in public places.

compulsive diarrhea, jico 01.23.2007 03:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bunbury
"TINKER BELL, HI"


BUNBURY (heavily photoshopped and airbrushed/ nipped and tucked) reciting cANDY's note...

 

awesome... as usual

Tokolosh 01.23.2007 04:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bunbury
I think you mean ASSthetic.


 

 



 


Shouldn't you be posting your artwork here?

king_buzzo 01.23.2007 04:56 PM

*creeped out face

golden child 01.28.2007 03:28 AM

read this- http://noiseguide.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=724

eatmychild 01.28.2007 08:05 AM

Club Silencio


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