Everything is Noise – as I’m writing these simple notes.
Is “music” in a bar on the radio in a disco in a mall or stores, anything other than absolute noise?
Is the TV screen in the hotel lobby in the restaurant at the gas station anything other than aggressive noise?
Is pop music, the whole pop culture, the newsfeed and all the constant repetition of voices turning into each other’s loudspeakers, new dogmas and modern doctrines left and right translating into a meaningless white noise background?
Noise as Art? Yes, expressing noise in music in whichever form can be a very effective form of psychic homeopathy.
But we are in a very different environment now compared to Russolo or Cage, or even Throbbing Gristle
Solve et Coagula were traditionally the two movements of the alchemist’s work
When you solve, there’s a lot of bleeding.
Hence I wonder:
is this the time to coagulate?
I wonder:
Is noise the opposite of music or is it the opposite of silence ?
I wonder:
Is it more subversive to strive for harmony now?