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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Honestly I listen to this and think that harsh noise never beat this for sheer disorientation. Even as a complete pleb, after five seconds of Merzbow I know that this is other ****, and after ten seconds I know this is a bunch of noise, even if I don't really appreciate the concept.
But I'm still not entirely sure how I should listen to "Frankie Teardrop". It's so quiet like it's inviting you to read too much into what Suicide are doing. But all Suicide want to do is stop you from thinking you're at a concert. You're just watching insanity. That's escapism. Madness. Anything else is just a bandaid.
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Yeah. Suicide is multilayered and can pull the listener in several emotional directions at once. I’m glad you brought it up. This journal was starving for something to talk about.
Re: Merzbow or any other in that wall of noise game...
https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...cking-out.html
You can hear different approaches to noise by checking out a few of the artists there. Some are expressing cathartic release, others are expressions of nihilism, and some are explicitly political. Often their packaging tells me they don’t actually know. Musicians are like that all the time. It’s weird.
If it annoys you turn it louder. If you’re bored read a book.
This is one of my Merzbow favorites
Venereology
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...3WiRgrdFc-mlbF
I think you would like it.
When I was younger I used to fast. Usually from food and water for 48 hours.
I got interested in it after reading this book:
Buddha from Korea: The Zen Teachings of T'aego
Taego Bou examines the question of whether dogs can have Buddha nature and concludes the answer is no but instead of explaining why not he assumes his reader (or disciple) isn’t ready for the word “no”. Instead of thinking about dogs he says we need to focus on the word no. He said focus on the word no like with the same intensity as a starving man focuses on food.
einstürzende neubauten negativ nein
One of my favorite songs ever.
I don’t just say yeah I’m too busy saying no.
-Beastie Boys rewrite-
The point of fasting, in this particular discipline, wasn’t to learn how condition yourself to deprivation but instead to train your mind to concentrate obsessively.
After about 40 hours I would be so ****ing thirsty. I would get a big bottle of Gatorade and stare at it for the entire final 8 hours. It’s a meditation cheat. You can try to focus on your breathing all you want. That **** is almost impossible. But get thirsty as **** and you can focus on water mother****er.
It’s a similar practice actually... it’s sort of a combination of pretending you are the sound vibrations and that the sound is all that exists. Monomaniacal focus on it except it’s not like Ahab and the whale. It’s relaxed.