The Urge to Make NOISE!!!

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Whenever I am trashed, I love to make noise tapes using whatever is at hand. I have a self-coded audio manipulation toolkit on my pc. I record ambient records through its filters while spinning them at the wrong rpm. Then I usually make a lot of amp noise. And then I do a little free form percussion and mix the whole mess together.

Does anyone else do this kinda crap?

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 15:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes, I did a couple of tracks under the name of "DJ SuperGhost" that was me screaming over heavily distorted and sped up drums. It was a bit like Destroy 2, and was quite fun. Also I did some Masonna-style all-vocal noise tracks, but they didn't turn out quite as good as DJ SuperGhost.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 15:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

I love drumming drunk! Seriously so much fun... god...

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 15:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

I did more of this a few years back, although I only had a guitar, "Grunge" pedal and amp at my disposal. I would tape the results onto a little tape recorder and listen to them later. More often than not, they were unlistenable, but occasionally some interesting passages would occur.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 15:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

I need a second pc so i can do this in my big echoy garage

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 15:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yup, I used to do this under the name "DJ Butcher"... mostly to annoy my friends.

― original bgm, Tuesday, 12 November 2002 16:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

This is a big part of what I do full-time.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 20:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

a coupe of weeks ago i plugged my guitar in and attacked it with metal balls. and broke all of the strings. because i hate it.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 22:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

usually when i'm making music i'm just searching for good rhythms and tones, but every once in a while it feels good to just lash out and fill some tape with ugly synth noise and feedback, although ultimately i hope to find something in it to reign in and use in a hot beat, etc.. also, a few years ago when i played drums constantly, it occasionally spiced up practice time to blast a noise tape a guy i knew sent me and play over it, just to have some arrhythmic sound to play against.

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 22:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

Good lord yes! I have become known as "de freek" thanks to my tendency to lock the door of my room and get busy with synth, amp, and out of tune piano. Putting things too loudly into overdriven mixer inputs, through nasty pedals... wreck the gaff!

― Conor (Conor), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 03:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

I really liked making noise with my buddies at WUTK back in the day. Rig up all the gear we could fit or find use for and plug it into one of the inputs on the broadcast mixer, then get revenge at the world for two hours or more, every Monday night once the clock struck twelve. This was an excellent arrangement since it was the station's monitors being victimized, and not my poor little stereo at home. Currently my boombox has about had it with nearly three years of abuse at the hands of my machinery and I.
I need to move out and buy some monitors with real cones.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 04:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

I do so whenever I can.

― Ashley Andel, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 21:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

We got a Knoxville boy here!!!! GO BIG ARNJ!! :)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 21:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Well I uploaded a few random recordings.

http://while1.org/~xm/

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 5 December 2002 12:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ohhh, yes.

― dave q, Thursday, 5 December 2002 12:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Feel free to comment on my noise crap if you listen to it. :D

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 5 December 2002 14:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

YAY, I like it. I would be better in stereo, but that's what I often say about mono recordings. I like the way pulses in some parts, and Bit Rot has a cool ending. Also (this is probably just because of the format), but I think it needs more high pitch and low pitch noise in it. cool overall.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

for original question: usually when i'm making music I just lash out and fill some tape (or computer memory) with ugly synth (guitar) noise and feedback (or just random sounds), but every once in a while it feels good to just search for good rhythms and tones.
My two favorite kinds of music are the extremely noisy and the extremely calm.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, I'm still perfecting stuff...

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 5 December 2002 17:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

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― the Stanmore signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 June 2005 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

eighteen years pass...

My son just released a 1920s noise album on a tiny German noise label.

mayaschwarzekatze.bandcamp.com/album/felix-the-harsh-noise-wall-cat

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 27 April 2024 04:22 (three weeks ago) link

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