On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 10:33 -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
> Another show was held in what I think must have been a church or union
> hall basement. It was barely promoted; I came upon it almost by
> accident. We walked into the room to find it packed with a large
> "scene" of noise enthusiasts, most of whom seemed to know each other.
> There were 3 or 4 performers (I don't remember exactly) armed with DAT
> units, tape recorders, and samplers. And they issued a disclaimer
> about ear damage and asked anyone with epilepsy to please leave. And
> then the noise started. Harsh, industrial, arhythmic, practically
> white noise. Layers and layers and layers of it, as one then another
> tape machine was started up to add more noise. And the performers and
> audience sat there... meditating. At the time I was mostly into jazz,
> and had enjoyed enough avante-garde honking car-crash jazz to
> appreciate noise, but this was a whole new level. The
> tape-deck-jockeys sat there with beatific grins, spacing out. The
> audience soon ended up in a similar state. The noise had blended
> together into such an all-encompassing, seamless, overwhelming,
> shifting whole, that was so loud and so overpowering that the overall
> feeling became as still as silence. The noise had become so loud that
> it was like quiet. It was a very unusual feeling. When the show was
> over we were completely disoriented.
Welcome to the LAC concert experience. Or more precisely, this years
Maerz Music event. Josh said "i don't get this. we don't get paid to
write software, but we pay these guys to use our software to attack our
hearing systems".
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