Michael Tau

Extreme Music (eBook, ePUB)

Silence to Noise and Everything In between

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Expand your aural and sensory experiences with Extreme Music. An exploration of tomorrow's sounds (and silences) today.



Michael Tau had spent years obsessed by the extremes of musical expression. Extreme Music: Silence to Noise and Everything In Between is the culmination of decades of research into the sounds (and silences) that comprise the outer limits and conceptual expressions that stretch the definition of music. Tau defines and categorizes these recorded sounds into sections that allow fans and newcomers to explore the fascinating world of musicians who defy convention. He explores a wide range of extremes including volume, speed, and vulgarity to packaging, recording methods, unplayable media, outdated technologies, and digital pioneers. He asks and answers the questions: Are all sounds music? Is silence music? Is a plate of rotting food once cataloged, packaged and sold by a distributor qualify as music?



Extreme Music includes over 100 interviews with makers and musicians as Tau uses his background in psychiatry to help readers understand what motivates people to create and listen to non-mainstream music. As a fan of multiple avant-garde musical genres, Tau uncovers the pleasures (and sometimes pain and frustration) found at the outré fringes of music. Extreme Music is the ideal guide for curious seekers, die-hard fans, and cultural investigators. Features images and curated links to samples of music.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Feral House
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781627311298
• Artikelnr.: 68422607

Autorenporträt

Michael Tau was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. As a teenager, he was introduced to bizarre and adventurous music via the after-hours CBC radio program, Brave New Waves, which he recorded onto cassette to listen to the next day. In university, he attended noise shows in lofts in Montreal's quasi-industrial districts, to the detriment of his hearing. He has since written for numerous underground music publications and has authored several music zines. When he isn't listening to the Merzbow boxset, he works as a physician.

Inhaltsangabe

SECTION I: EXTREME SCENES
I.1 LOUD
............................................................................................15
I.1.1 The Loudness
War.............................................................15
I.1.2 Noise
Music.......................................................................18
I.1.3 Harsh Noise
Wall..............................................................22
I.2 QUIET
............................................................................................33
I.2.1
Drone..................................................................................34
I.2.2 New Age
Music.................................................................34
I.2.3
Ambient..............................................................................37
I.2.4 Homemade
Drone............................................................39
I.2.5
Lowercase..........................................................................40
I.2.6
Onkyô................................................................................44
I.3
VULGAR..........................................................................................47
I.3.1 Blood and
Guts.................................................................47
I.3.2
Pornogrind.........................................................................54
I.4 FAST
............................................................................................61
I.4.1
Speedcore..........................................................................62
I.4.2
Splittercore........................................................................69
I.4.3
Extratone...........................................................................71
I.4.4
Flashcore............................................................................73
I.5
FOUND...........................................................................................77
SECTION II: EXTREME DURATIONS
II.1 LONG
............................................................................................97
II.2 SHORT
...........................................................................................111
SECTION III: EXTREME RECORDS
III.1
LATHE-CUT....................................................................................127
III.2 LARGE
..........................................................................................
131
III.3 SMALL
..........................................................................................135
III.4
SHAPES.........................................................................................141
III.4.1
Places...............................................................................142
III.4.2
Sawblades.......................................................................143
III.4.3
Beyond.............................................................................146
III.5
PICTURES......................................................................................149
III.5.1 Picture Disc
Prehistory...................................................149
III.5.2 Vogue
Records................................................................150
III.5.3 Red Raven Records’ Zoetrope Discs............................. 151
III.5.4 Picture Discs in the Rock
Era..........................................152
III.6 ADULTERATED
.............................................................................159
III.7 NON-VINYL
.................................................................................165
III.7.1 Records That
Melt...........................................................165
III.7.2 Project
Dark.....................................................................168
III.7.3 Other Unusual
Materials................................................ 171
SECTION IV: TECHNOLOGICAL QUIRKS
IV.1 CHIPTUNE
....................................................................................177
IV.2 LOBIT
..........................................................................................183
IV.3 FLOPPIES
.....................................................................................
191
IV.3.1 Early Floppy
History....................................................... 191
IV.3.2 Floppies as
Subculture....................................................193
IV.4 MICROCASSETTES
.......................................................................199
IV.4.1
Microcassettor.................................................................199
IV.4.2 One-Touch
Recordings....................................................200
IV.4.3 dirgefunk’s
microcassettes............................................201
IV.4.4
Dictaphonia......................................................................202
IV.4.5
Dictafawn.........................................................................203
IV.4.6 Lavender
Sweep.............................................................204
IV.5 8-TRACKS
.....................................................................................207
IV.5.1 Malcolm Tent’s 8-Track Obsession................................208
IV.5.2 8-Tracks in the
Nineties.................................................. 210
IV.5.3 The 21st
Century............................................................. 210
IV.6
CYLINDERS...................................................................................
215
IV.7 NON-TRADITIONAL
FORMATS................................................... 219
IV.7.1 USB &
SD..........................................................................
219
IV.7.2 Self-Reliant
Formats........................................................220
SECTION V: EXTREME PACKAGING
V.1
ELABORATE..................................................................................227
V.1.1 History of Elaborate Packaging....................................228
V.1.2 American
Tapes...............................................................229
V.1.3 MSBR
Records.................................................................233
V.1.4 Toxic Industries / Very
Toxic.........................................235
V.1.5
Others...............................................................................239
V.2 DISGUSTING
...............................................................................243
V.2.1 Disgusting Accoutrements
.............................................247
V.2.2
Packs................................................................................247
V.2.3 Body
Fluids......................................................................248
V.2.4
Perishables......................................................................252
V.2.5 A Final
Anecdote.............................................................255
SECTION VI: RECORDINGS?
VI.1 SILENT
..........................................................................................261
VI.1.1 Silent
Pioneers.................................................................261
VI.1.2 Silent
Recordings.............................................................263
VI.2 DAMAGED
...................................................................................273
VI.3 UNPLAYABLE
...............................................................................281
VI.3.1 Anti-Records & Underground Music.............................283
VI.3.2 RRRecords’
Anti-Records................................................284
VI.3.3 The
Haters........................................................................286
VI.3.4 Major Ego Produkt Objekts & Aktions.........................289
VI.3.5 One-Off Anti-Records in the Nineties............................292
VI.3.6 Anti-Recordings in Other Formats.................................295
VI.3.7 Contemporary Anti-Recordings: NONE Records,
Michael Ridge, and Auris Apothecary.........................298
VI.3.9 Anti-Recordings: Tying It All Together..........................304
SECTION VII: THE DIGITAL AGE
VII.1
WAVES..........................................................................................
313
VII.1.1
Mallsoft............................................................................
313
VII.1.2 Broken
Transmission.......................................................321
VII.1.3 Late Night
Lo-Fi...............................................................324
VII.2
RINGTONES.................................................................................327
VII.3 BLACK MIDI
................................................................................331
VII.4
OUTSIDERS...................................................................................333
VII.4.1
R.A.E.D.............................................................................333
VII.4.2
Viper.................................................................................335
VII.4.3 Farrah
Abraham.............................................................336
VII.4.4 Al
Walser.........................................................................337
VII.4.5 Chief
Kooffreh.................................................................338
VII.4.6 Fallen
Vengeance............................................................338
VII.4.7 Girls With
Attitude..........................................................339
VII.4.8 Ornaments of
Agony......................................................340
VII.4.9 Hekaloth
Records............................................................340
VII.4.10
Tonetta.............................................................................341