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This type of music tends to challenge the distinction that is made in conventional musical practices between musical and non-musical sound.

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Here I swing a peavey bass amp...100lbs or so...and smash it.
Something like this
https://reverb.com/p/peavey-tko-115s-80 ... =140251415

Also did a set with BRR the same night where BRR throws a trash can full off nasty beer bottles all over the place...

BRRs set at Tulsa noise fest 2019 where he uses a leafblower and bags of Doritos...hilarious and it smelled so bad.
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December/2015

Rolled into Cincinnati with "Scotty" (it's a dumb in-joke) from Hemisaurus for a night of noise at the (now defunct) Rake's End.

The venue was in a building that housed a handful of apartments. Okay. That's weird. It was also in a very desolate looking area. No one around. That didn't bother me, though. You can't really be concerned with someone fucking with you if there is no one there in the first place. We waited outside until the other band peeps showed up. Then, waited forever for the fucking bartenders to get there. It was a husband/wife team. They were pretty nice. But, that would change as the night went on.

I opened the show with an absolute disaster of a set. I had abandoned my initial idea for a set once Amish Robotic Man arrived with the Canjo that he had built for me. This was, hands down, the stupidest idea that I ever had when it came to a set. The tiny clip-on contact mic that I was using did a horrible job at amplifying this much larger Canjo than the one that I had used previously. I cobbled some stuff together in the middle of the set in an attempt to salvage it, played for maybe 10 more minutes and said "fuck it".

Apparently, the male bartender was pissed off at my volume levels. Or maybe he thought that my set sucked. (If he did, I would agree.) However, considering how this night went, I think this would've been his reaction had I went with my original plans.

Hemisauraus and Where's Uranus? played and if the bartender was bitching, I don't remember. I was too busy rocking out to notice. He probably was, though.

Once Digital Jazz Man started, the asshole bartender was yelling at him to turn things down again. I couldn't understand this fucker for the life of me. Here was a place that regularly booked Harsh Noise and Death/Grind bands and this fucker is complaining about volume levels. The average Metal drumkit could've drowned us out considering how small the place was. I was getting more and more pissed off as this went on.

By the time that The Smudge went on and I heard a few more blatherings of "turn it down", I was seeing red. I was seriously considering throwing some bottles at this fucker's head or slinging some chairs his way. A couple of the dudes had to take me aside and calm me down. After listening to them make sense. Because...yeah...you don't want your first night in jail ever to be in a city that you don't live in and you are way too fucking broke to get bailed out. So, I decided not to do anything violent.

But, by the time that Amishrobots went on, and that fucker kept up with yelling about turning down, I decided to camp out in the little upstairs cubby hole where some gear was stashed. Plus, my recorder was up there anyway. I gave the bartender the laser evil eye for the rest of the night. One guy motioned for Amish to turn up the gear. I walked downstairs and had the guy come up. I explained to him in no uncertain terms what this fucker was doing. As it turned out, this jerk-off had a history of doing this on nights when attendance was sparse. Well, excuse me for fucking living. No one knows who we are. Not every act is fucking Rodger Stella. The bands and the five spectators were buying drinks. So, fuck off.

Once the show was over, we got our gear out of there super fast. We didn't get paid. But, I never expected that anyway. The place closed down when the owner, who wasn't at the show, got fucked over with some shady shit. Then, that's when more stuff came out about this bartender schmuck. It turns out that he had a knack for alienating local acts in the scene. Not too fucking bright.

In closing, long live The Mockbee! A much better place in every sense.
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Played a show in Vancouver Washington to a dog the 3 people that lived in the house xdugef and some guy xdugef drove 1/2 hour to pick up.
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RUBBISH wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2020 4:25 pm Played a show in Vancouver Washington to a dog the 3 people that lived in the house xdugef and some guy xdugef drove 1/2 hour to pick up.


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This happened at a show in columbia Missouri last year.
Started with the person crawling head first into a nasty old punk venue trash can full of trash bottles and cans and rolling it over onto the floor..was waiting for broken glass but it never happened

I guess this person...Kelly...does fucked up shit like this frequently. RAGK got really upset as this freak out went on for 15 minutes and wasn't part of the lineup
...I got the last half of it.


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So the second show was at this place called the Lothlorien Co-op,
February 27, 2016. From what I gather, it's sort of this collectivist
hippie commune living in a huge, dilapidated mansion. Apparently they
used to host shows all the time, but ours was the first one in a
while. I went there a day or two before the show to scope out the
parking situation, as well as get an idea of what the venue had to
offer i.e. if they had a PA.

Of course, this being the city, my predictions about parking being
non-existant were correct. The Loth's driveway was tiny, for members
only, and the surrounding side streets were cramped and probably just
as coveted. I settled on a nearby parking ramp the night of the show:
$5 and wading through a few blocks of the occasional drunken frat boys
was well worth the price of avoiding that bullshit. In retrospect I
could've at least drove up to the place to unload/load my gear, but
all of said gear fit in two briefcases anyways so it didn't cross my
mind at the time.

Anyways, there's hardly a soul alive out on the streets this day (it
was probably in the afternoon), so imagine my surprise when I rang the
doorbell and a little girl who looked no more than 9 years old came
running up to the side window. I knelt down, like a totally not creepy
stranger, and asked if her mom was home through the window. Thankfully
she was, or maybe it was her grandma? Whoever she was, she was very
nice. I explained why I was here, got a quick look through the place,
and was satisfied with what I saw. I left behind a stack of free CD-Rs
(none of my music, just shit I'd burned to disc across a few years)
and we said our goodbyes and good lucks.

The night of the show, advertised on facebook as... ughhh...
"Pegfest
2: The Year of Double Penetration,"
was actually JR's
"birthday noise show" as well. Aside from us, there was PUKE MUSIC, a
sort of improv noisy jam duo featuring a drummer (Anders of local
hardcore band NO QUESTION) and guitarist (CAPITOL SWIZZLE CREDIT,
can't remember his name); TUNT IN THE MACHINE, a collaboration between
TUNT and BARF IN THE MACHINE (the latter of whom performed at FrotFest
2015, my first "real" solo noise show); Dan Hintz performing as a solo
incarnation of HIDEOUS REPLICA (I believe by this time he was in the
process of moving to NY, hence the absence of the other member, Frank
Rose); CITIZEN 2-13; THE SMUDGE; and BOURGEOIS GIRL, a beach-y
sounding rock group from Denver. There were other acts scheduled to
play for the evening, but they either cancelled or I left before they
showed up, so I can't comment on them.

I think by this point JR's car had just gotten out of the shop so I
was meeting her at the venue this time around. She was talking with
some other people and eventually she pulled me aside to discuss our
plan for the show (we didn't have a rehearsal this time).

The one thing that sticks out in my memory, and again I'm paraphrasing
here, is at one point she said something like "You'll come in when I
bring the blender out-"
I replied, confused, "the blender?"
"The blender," JR confirmed.
Her face was straight as can be.
In that moment, I'm thinking, oh boy, here we go again...

As I said before, no footage of our collaborative sets exists, but you
can find footage of TUNT IN THE MACHINE's set
here. You can
see me about 8:15 in: I'm the tall, dark retard near the leftmost side
of the screen. I knew the BARF IN THE MACHINE guy from FrotFest
(sorry, forgot his name too) and the two dudes he was performing with
completely drowned out his contribution to the set, so at one point he
just sat on the ground, looking bummed. I gave him a hug.

Skipping to the end of CITIZEN 2-13's set, a good set that convinced
me to buy a Boss RC-3, JR is looking kind of stressed. I can't
remember most of what we said to each other that night, but I do
distinctly remember her telling me our priority was to stall long
enough for BOURGEOIS GIRL and TIMMY JACKS OFF to arrive. Come to think
of it, this show was sort of the opposite of the Wisco show, where the
weirdo noise goblins like us played first, then the normal, real bands
would play later. I guess they were saving the best for last?
Actually, I'm pretty sure JR was the one to set this whole show up: I
wouldn't be surprised if the 'real' bands were just late and she had
to improvise. Point being, we were setting up for like a half hour and
I can vaguely remember JR being really particular about something or
other which dragged out the process. At one point point she said,
"fuck it," and I started off the show by introducing the crowd to the
birthday girl, and describing myself as, I quote, "Aspergers as fuck!"
...well, at least that's not the most cringe-inducing thing
I've ever said.

I stood with my arms crossed in the back for the first few minutes of
the set, waiting for my cue. The room's layout was similar to the last
show, where I had the PA in back and JR was out in front, likely with
her amp. I say "likely" because I can't honestly remember if it was
the same amp as the last show, or if there was even an amp at all. All
I remember is she was sort of playing with a big pile of radios and
other stereo equipment, turning knobs, breaking shit, etc. The noise
was very underwhelming as the occasional cheer from the audience cut
right through it.

Then the moment of truth arrived: the blender came out. Before I could
even think of fading in my setup, JR pulls a fucking dildo out of
nowhere and, without flinching, lowers it head first into the now
active blender. The sound was nauseating: everyone in the room with a
penis crossed their legs subconsciously, except maybe JR herself. It
was like that scene from Who Framed Roger Rabbit when Judge Doom
slowly dips a cartoon shoe in acid. It would've been funny if it
weren't so grating. I waited until the poor little guy was shredded
maybe 1/3 of the way through (surprisingly resilient material there)
before bringing up the levels of my setup.

I was pretty proud of my contribution to the set. I think at the time
I had just got done with this circuit-bent drum machine that was a
cutup monster, and I was using that in conjunction with a white noise
machine, also circuit bent, with the usual assortment of miscellaneous
pedals. Just like the last show, however, we were both sort of
performing in our own little worlds. I did hear JR scream out sum sicc
vokillz and maybe a brief *CRACK* at one point but I mostly soldiered
on, oblivious to my surroundings.

Then I looked up: two things immediately caught my attention. First,
JR was nowhere to be seen. Second, the whole audience stood looking
absolutely mortified, mouths agape in an expression of sheer shock. I
walked over to the PA's mixer, quickly faded-out my setup, and said "I
guess that's it," ending our set. Sparse applause followed shortly
thereafter.

I go over towards the audience to see if I can find out where JR went
to. I was chatting with some guys about Aspergers in general and my
eyes wandered over to where JR was performing just minutes ago: she
brought another fucking mirror, just out of my line of sight from the
back, only this time it was smaller and had a perfectly fist-shaped
crack pattern in the middle. JR comes out of the bathroom, bleeding.
She shows me her hand and a chunk of mirror is lodged in one of her
knuckles, and I'm just thinking, yeah, okay.

As I'm packing up my gear, I keep coming across jettisoned pieces of
chewed-up dildo: I dare not think of this dildo's product life prior
to the set. They were definitely sticky. They got everywhere.

At this point, BOURGEOIS GIRL showed up and were set to play any
minute, so the mood overall was quite jovial. We'd done our duty.

I've failed to mention up until this point that there's been a small
but growing haze above the room, more than a mist but less than a
cloud. People were of course smoking and drinking beforehand so I
thought nothing of it. I go over to JR after I've packed everything
and am ready to go (I made the decision long before the show to duck
out early just because). We're chatting and JR is smoking then she
says something like, "do you want a hit of this, is that what's
happening?"

Why I didn't conclude from the get-go that it was marijuana these
people were smoking, I don't know, but the realization hit me like a
ton of bricks. I had never even seen nor smelled weed before
this, let alone been offered some. I noped the hell out of there
quickly after that, not just because I'm not about that life in
general, but also I really didn't want to be caught in a crowd of
thirty or forty people in the big, loud house with the looming pot
cloud over it on a Saturday night. Thank god for drunk frat boys, I
guess: police were probably more worried about them than us.

So that's the end of my story. All this shit can be heard for free
here,
or if you want I still have a bunch of tape copies available. It's
once again getting late and I have shit to do yet and more shit to
take care of tomorrow, so that's all for now. I might come back and
share some photos but the main story is done.
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NoiseWiki wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:56 am
Social_Drift wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:49 am the guy who just played other people's tracks live.
Yea.. that guy booked himself for the Norcal Noise fest then claimed he landed in the US but went back to Germany without playing the festival.
https://www.noisewiki.com/wiki/index.ph ... =%2B-error
Social_Drift wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:49 am nichts for nada.
Never heard of that
Social_Drift wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:49 amrjmayonnaise trying to get i think bizarre uproar closed down.
Sounds like something he'd do.
Social_Drift wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:49 am nothing is true being imprisoned for kidnapping and rap.
https://www.noisewiki.com/wiki/index.ph ... ingIstTrue
holy shit whats up with this nothing is true guy?
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NOISEBOB wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2020 2:34 pm


Speaking of table flips...

Also, GRAVHUND will never be booked again at that venue for trashing it. Literally.
i want to see more shows like this
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zowozon wrote: Fri May 22, 2020 11:24 am
NOISEBOB wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2020 2:34 pm


Speaking of table flips...

Also, GRAVHUND will never be booked again at that venue for trashing it. Literally.
i want to see more shows like this

Try some RUBBISH.
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zowozon wrote: Fri May 22, 2020 10:51 am holy shit whats up with this nothing is true guy?
Well he's in jail for a bit .. one might say he took Power Electronics a bit too seriously.
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