The OFFICIAL Noise/Experimental Community Thread.

[Matt Till]

www.themarsvolta.com

ehhhhhhhhhttttttttt WRONG!



I think any and all "noisemakers" should state some means on which they generate noise.

I think one of my favorites thus far, when I use a Y cable to hook the In and Out of my ProCo Rat II together, and have the output of THAT going to a delay, it sounds almost Theremin esque. If I start layering that, I can create some interesting effects.

It's a pretty obvious one, but Y cabling effects is very fun, you can get widely different results from different pedals.

 

[Matt Till]

Banned

How did Ten get banned?

 

[superbassman2000]

does swearing get you banned?

idk

back on topic...here's zappa doing "real" experimental music
part one
part two

 

[page]

Jeez guys. Take your feelings else where. If all you're going to do is troll a thread and call stuff, that we put feeling and hard work into "crap" then you are just asking for a probation.

Seriously, take it outside.

Incase that was aimed at my earlier post , just to let you know I really do listen to music similliar to that and would probably have no qualms about performing the stuff myself!
I like noise, I like beer, and I like to urinate.


Not sure how experimental they are compared to some of these guys, but I'd like to mention Lightning Bolt.

 

[Freaky Fender]

Not sure how experimental they are compared to some of these guys, but I'd like to mention Lightning Bolt.

Lightning Bolt is pretty straight foward actually. They just tend to be really LOUD, distorted, and jam on grooves.

But they still use noise.

 

[Alan Vorse]

Regardless of what kind of music I'm playing, I always like to end the evening by setting my delay to 2 seconds and crank the repeats up all the way. Then do volume swells on all the notes in the last chord (and some notes not in the chord) in multiple octaves. Then when I have this wierd pulsating Frippertronic thing happenig, set the bass down and walk away. Also looping the ring tones in my cell phone can be quite Hell-acious.

After seeing Adrian Belew on a Laurie Anderson video, I once started a set by playing with knife, fork and tongs. I wedged the D and G strings into the tines of the fork and ran the serrated edge of the knife over the strings which made the fork vibrate in wierd way. Everybody in the bar stopped what they were doing and looked at me with these terrified looks on their faces.

Also, if you point a TV remote into your pickups, you get a steady stream of beeping sounds which are fun to manipulate with a Whammy pedal (did that on stage too).

 

[Nyarlathotep]

v--- Experimental, all the way. Reminds me, I should really record some clips...

 

[Nyarlathotep]

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Found it! Starts out with some tool stuff, but then just degrades from there. I even forget what pedals I had on at what times . It was recorded before I got my 2nd Punch Factory.

 

[Freaky Fender]

Regardless of what kind of music I'm playing, I always like to end the evening by setting my delay to 2 seconds and crank the repeats up all the way. Then do volume swells on all the notes in the last chord (and some notes not in the chord) in multiple octaves. Then when I have this wierd pulsating Frippertronic thing happenig, set the bass down and walk away. Also looping the ring tones in my cell phone can be quite Hell-acious.

After seeing Adrian Belew on a Laurie Anderson video, I once started a set by playing with knife, fork and tongs. I wedged the D and G strings into the tines of the fork and ran the serrated edge of the knife over the strings which made the fork vibrate in wierd way. Everybody in the bar stopped what they were doing and looked at me with these terrified looks on their faces.

Also, if you point a TV remote into your pickups, you get a steady stream of beeping sounds which are fun to manipulate with a Whammy pedal (did that on stage too).

Dear Lord that mental image is priceles.

I've plugged pedals into themselfs (the digitech x-series with the stereo outs are useful. The cool thing is that depending on which pedal you plug it into you can get very different sounds.

 

[Matt Till]

Oh, I forgot, my recording contributions to this thread : Link Removed

Any questions on my noise production means, I'll be sure to tell you... I don't remeber.

 

[AllDayPBass]

personally, the philosophies behind what is considered experimental music have always been more intrguing than the music itself...
cage, sunn, partch, anthony braxton all seem to fit this category imo.

 

[brianrost]

I like a lot of experimental/noise stuff but it really is on a case by case basis.

To enjoy music that's out of the ordinary it helps a LOT to have a "gateway", for me it was hearing Frank Zappa as a teenager. By the time I was 20 I had heard a good amount of avant garde music in the classical, jazz and pop world and so my ears become used to noise and dissonance to the point where I grew to like it.

I suppose I prefer experimental music that still has some melodic or rhythmic aspects to it that I can grab on to. Some things still sound like noise (in the annoying sense) to me like Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music". In fact I was amazed this got reissued!

I was dissapointed in the last Squarepusher CD, I was expecting something more, eh, MUSICAL!!!!

 

[Ten]

I like a lot of experimental/noise stuff but it really is on a case by case basis.

To enjoy music that's out of the ordinary it helps a LOT to have a "gateway", for me it was hearing Frank Zappa as a teenager. By the time I was 20 I had heard a good amount of avant garde music in the classical, jazz and pop world and so my ears become used to noise and dissonance to the point where I grew to like it.

I suppose I prefer experimental music that still has some melodic or rhythmic aspects to it that I can grab on to. Some things still sound like noise (in the annoying sense) to me like Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music". In fact I was amazed this got reissued!

I was dissapointed in the last Squarepusher CD, I was expecting something more, eh, MUSICAL!!!!

I don't like Squarepusher. At all.