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yeah but punks in the 70s were starting from again from scratch more or less, noise musicians today are part of a tradition that includes crazed masterpieces already like merzbow's rainbow electronics, for example. so when the bar has already been raised to a certain level people should put more effort and consideration, and most of all self-editing into what they are doing.
i guess one of the problems with nosie is that it is very difficult to find out about, and hear older noise music, seeing as that stuff was released in such minute quantities, and when but mostly if that stuff gets reissued it seems to be on high priced reissues, or part of boxsets or whatever, and in equally minute runs.
maybe that is the fate of noise, a style that will always be victim to it's own obscurity.
anyway golden child, ultimately listening to what guys like him have to say isn't going to help you, if you're talented you will make good music, and if you aren't no ammount of reading will help you get better. i think one of the problems with noise also is that it attracts a far higher ratio of talentless individuals that other styles of music. and also due to the lack of apparent technical focus in noise, nobody is encouraged to try and master their instrument, they just swap to a new one when they tire of/run out of ideas with whatever they are playing. but if you look at long standing noise musicians, like borbetomagus for example, or jojo hiroshige, those guys have been playing the same instruments for 25 years, and they're making better music than almost any of the new crop of noise groups.
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