For all of you saying, "This isn't art because anyone could do it." Well, that is part of the point... Anyone CAN make art, no matter what kind of art it happens to be. If you want to be a skilled drummer, you can do it, you just have to bust your ass practicing. If you want to make something like this and be able to recreate it in concert, it requires skill and understanding of your equipment as well.
+It is Just a Dream (Create Your Reality) Oh its actually harder to manipulate noise the way Merzbow does than some may think. It appears easy as an art form and it is because I started making noise because of Merzbow and artists like him but it really takes alot of time to put together something as intricate and layered as his tracks :p
For everyone who think this is easy, just try to create an album. If you succede, then : congratulation. Now, do 300 other that sound completely different. If you succede, then you are officially can say : it was easy.
Noise music is the logical progression of Music Itself. All possible melodies and rhythms have been exhausted. It's time to appreciate what was called "unmusical" but is actually textures and jolts, like a thunderstorm.
Music is the arrangement of sound. Contrary to what you believe, this has been arranged by someone. And you won't actually get the same sounds by taking the input jack of your speakers and touching your PC's motherboard with it. What you will get is one monotonous buzz. What you hear in this is a dense arrangement of countless different sounds. Not all music is meant to be listened to in the same way.
I see this music as musical textures, noisescapes. It's a way to soothe and a way to vent aggression. As a noise-artist myself it's a way to express myself and a alternative to useless violence applied to other people.
The point of this music is NOT to have any motive of understanding and clarity,it is what it is,simply Noise..Nothing else,you have gotta be having an open mind when listening to it,mere thoughts will only make it worse when listening to this.
I try to listen intently and analyze patterns that arent there. In a way this practice is a sort of inversion of classical meditation. As Merbow said: "If by noise you mean unpleasant sound-- then pop music is noise to me."
This have been the very first japanese noise thing I've ever listened to in my life back in 2003, right in the feels! Gorgeous work from the master of noise \m/_
Right usage? you can dance to it, you can enjoy it, music can get you to sad, happy and other fellings. Music has rhytm that can kick you in right feeling, you can enjoy it. This is like if you take jack of speakers and put it right somewhere in your motherboard in PC and scratch it to random pins. I dont see any point of this, its only noise, that has no idea. And if you want to argue that that noise has idea, where it is? Random sounds? random volume? random noises put together? no. no. no.
this music can get me sad, happy, and other feelings. I can enjoy it. There is no purpose to any music and this is meant to be disorganized chaos just as you hear it. the fact that this confuses and irritates you shows that it is effective noise
For a lot of people it isnt (me included). Its an acquired taste. I like how you handled this opinion instead of just saying *UGH THIS JUST SOUNDS LIKE NOISE THIS ISNT MUSIC* like most others, however!
i didn't understand this and probably still don't but i just got the idea that some sounds supposed to help you sleep and some to help you focus. well if you stay in that area i guess i can see how this music supposed to work. this is actually not that far from music as "we" know it. since it's also painting pictures and the canvas is emotion.. at least that is what i think...for now. i can respect this genre without liking it too..i don't dislike it either. this is still interesting to me!
You've just disqualified almost all music from being music, including Mozart & most serious jazz. "It has a good beat & you can dance to it" is a good criterion for pop music for teenagers, but not for everything. There are more ideas here than in almost any album I know. He's using ideas from surrealism, psychedelic music, & avant garde electronic music, among others. There is music consisting of literally random noise, & it's awesome (Hijokaidan, Incapacitants, Haters), but this ain't that.
really? that would produce the same exact noise as this? thats cool you should do it and record it, I'd like to hear some merzbow covers. anyone can take a guitar, or any other instrument and play a song just as they hear it too, right? You really are further proving that this is some really effective noise.
Yes yes yes Music = deliberately crafted sound. It doesn't need any of those traits to be considered music. Furthermore, "it has no point" is bullshit aswell. Music, aswell as all art doesn't exist to serve a purpose, or be "used". It simply is. One could even argue that it is a contradiction to "use" or create art for any purpose, since it is only to be considered art when it does _not_ have a purpose, therefore sounds designed to be danced to or evoke an emotional response are not music. ;)
Yeah I understand you, but then this "noise" is priceles,, because i can do the same only with my speakers - i will open my pc, take the input jack of speakers and touch my PCs motherboard on random places and it will produce the same noise as this. And the quote:,, If my music is noise to you..." is big bullshit, I can make better quote:,,If my balls are ugly for you, you are ugly for me.". So merzbow isnt any artist, cause he makes things that can everybody do too.
Yeah but then the word "music" loses its meaning, because then you can call music everything like police siren combined with sound of engine or something. IMHO merzbow and other is more noise than music.Tell me please - how can you listen this longer than 1 minute? I can not imagine how irritating it is...
![The Locust - Plague Soundscapes [FULL ALBUM]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/bqpc56ccUM0/mqdefault.jpg)
For all of you saying, "This isn't art because anyone could do it." Well, that is part of the point... Anyone CAN make art, no matter what kind of art it happens to be. If you want to be a skilled drummer, you can do it, you just have to bust your ass practicing. If you want to make something like this and be able to recreate it in concert, it requires skill and understanding of your equipment as well.
+It is Just a Dream (Create Your Reality) Oh its actually harder to manipulate noise the way Merzbow does than some may think. It appears easy as an art form and it is because I started making noise because of Merzbow and artists like him but it really takes alot of time to put together something as intricate and layered as his tracks :p
It's like Rothko's paintings. "Anyone can do that". Yeh maybe, but you didn't.
terrywaitesez
great answer
The most important thing about art is expressing yourself, not skills
For everyone who think this is easy, just try to create an album. If you succede, then : congratulation. Now, do 300 other that sound completely different. If you succede, then you are officially can say : it was easy.
Man his 90's albums probably are the loudest and hit the hardest.
Noise music is the logical progression of Music Itself. All possible melodies and rhythms have been exhausted. It's time to appreciate what was called "unmusical" but is actually textures and jolts, like a thunderstorm.
Check out a new Doom Band called LecH.
Pretty good for a bunch of young guys.
Music is the arrangement of sound. Contrary to what you believe, this has been arranged by someone.
And you won't actually get the same sounds by taking the input jack of your speakers and touching your PC's motherboard with it. What you will get is one monotonous buzz. What you hear in this is a dense arrangement of countless different sounds. Not all music is meant to be listened to in the same way.
I see this music as musical textures, noisescapes. It's a way to soothe and a way to vent aggression. As a noise-artist myself it's a way to express myself and a alternative to useless violence applied to other people.
The point of this music is NOT to have any motive of understanding and clarity,it is what it is,simply Noise..Nothing else,you have gotta be having an open mind when listening to it,mere thoughts will only make it worse when listening to this.
I try to listen intently and analyze patterns that arent there. In a way this practice is a sort of inversion of classical meditation.
As Merbow said:
"If by noise you mean unpleasant sound-- then pop music is noise to me."
guys, this is such a perfect way to purge your brain from stress, trust me
Merzbow is the man
This is so relaxing to me.
I think everyone who like this type of music is capable to feel ASMR experience.
I get ASMR all the time but this is still garbage
The best moment is when you turn it off and you can enjoy the sweet silence... :3
+różowy królik that's called lowercase, you might like that too
I would like to hear to those sounds at friday or saturday in my local bar
If you're complaining this is just noise congrats it is want a Cookie?
my brain everytime i take a bong hit.
This have been the very first japanese noise thing I've ever listened to in my life back in 2003, right in the feels! Gorgeous work from the master of noise \m/_
When I need some music to do homework by, it's usually Merzbow that I use.
this is basically emotion made sound.
it should be played at riots.
I highly recommend playing this and some lofi Coma Cinema at the same time. Works so well if you mix it right.
we need a ten hour version of this
I love the beat!
Right usage? you can dance to it, you can enjoy it, music can get you to sad, happy and other fellings. Music has rhytm that can kick you in right feeling, you can enjoy it. This is like if you take jack of speakers and put it right somewhere in your motherboard in PC and scratch it to random pins. I dont see any point of this, its only noise, that has no idea. And if you want to argue that that noise has idea, where it is? Random sounds? random volume? random noises put together? no. no. no.
His mix is so good. I am jealous 😮
somewhre around 18:00-20:00 is aboslutly mind numbing!
Ich hab mich grad verliebt und das Lied spiegelt denn Leidensweg (m)einer versunkenen Seele wieder. Konfetti -Stimmung
would be a banger on one of his gigs
this music can get me sad, happy, and other feelings. I can enjoy it. There is no purpose to any music and this is meant to be disorganized chaos just as you hear it. the fact that this confuses and irritates you shows that it is effective noise
I think it's a lot more common that people DISlike stuff because it's different or weird than that they like it for that reason.
The chorus is my favorite part. Dope lyrics!
He can live and work doing (and selling) this things, I respect him. This is art.
hmmm... i would love to see this performed live.
No hate, this just isn't for me...
thias is how the opinion should be handled thank you
For a lot of people it isnt (me included). Its an acquired taste. I like how you handled this opinion instead of just saying *UGH THIS JUST SOUNDS LIKE NOISE THIS ISNT MUSIC* like most others, however!
No one gives a fk
This is musical masochism
I'm not exactly sure how do I feel about this, but I perhaps like it very much.
the part at 9:14 is so good ugh
i didn't understand this and probably still don't
but i just got the idea that some sounds supposed to help you sleep and some to help you focus.
well if you stay in that area i guess i can see how this music supposed to work.
this is actually not that far from music as "we" know it.
since it's also painting pictures and the canvas is emotion..
at least that is what i think...for now.
i can respect this genre without liking it too..i don't dislike it either.
this is still interesting to me!
therapeutic
When the silence that follows is almost unbearably quiet
This is so much better than the beatles and AC/DC
The person who is listening to it. Isn't that who defines anything that is good?
yet if you stuck tiny microphones into your cell nuclei guess what it would sound like in there? a lot like THIS.
You've just disqualified almost all music from being music, including Mozart & most serious jazz. "It has a good beat & you can dance to it" is a good criterion for pop music for teenagers, but not for everything.
There are more ideas here than in almost any album I know. He's using ideas from surrealism, psychedelic music, & avant garde electronic music, among others. There is music consisting of literally random noise, & it's awesome (Hijokaidan, Incapacitants, Haters), but this ain't that.
Hmm... I liked the "Im coming to garden" track better but this is good too
This album should be called "An Hour To Blow Your Speakers"...
Is there anyone out there who can upload merzbow Blues Maggot?! its also a nice track:) peace to all living creatures
really? that would produce the same exact noise as this? thats cool you should do it and record it, I'd like to hear some merzbow covers. anyone can take a guitar, or any other instrument and play a song just as they hear it too, right? You really are further proving that this is some really effective noise.
Genius!
OW. My EARS!!
The title is exactly what it is; it is a salad of audio.
Then listen to The NO and you will see that avantgarde can be pretty accessible and listener-friendly.
Amazing/10.
What's the right "usage" for any music?
I don't think the hellicopter's going to start.
21:34
I'm having a high level ear massage
Can you please upload Merzbow's Metallic Fever Echo from this album? Good on you, man! :D
A planet
this fucking rules. he's a genius.
Good.
So this is how I sound making salad
Yes yes yes
Music = deliberately crafted sound. It doesn't need any of those traits to be considered music.
Furthermore, "it has no point" is bullshit aswell. Music, aswell as all art doesn't exist to serve a purpose, or be "used". It simply is. One could even argue that it is a contradiction to "use" or create art for any purpose, since it is only to be considered art when it does _not_ have a purpose, therefore sounds designed to be danced to or evoke an emotional response are not music. ;)
FULL SONG????
forgot about 11:04
This.
true. Its the "logical" progression of classical music, since that genre has been pushing the realms of dissonance since Bach etc...
fucking banger
4/4 ?
Anyone else come here specifically because of the name
If you want to die a slow, painful death afterward, it's good.
LOL I know the feeling hahahahaha!!!!
now im dead inside
@MrIhavenolife94 Get on that so i can listen to the whole thing while I listen to the rainbow bunchie boss battle for 10 hours. They fit perfectly.
IMA DO A COVER OF THIS :P
35:13
That's....Different.
@Hentaifreak50 Of course.
who cares if he is a fecking vegan or not? this is awesome.
muh jam
Merzbow feat Donald Duck and Atari 2600
more like datura
It's rather like a clown in the way the sound bends and folds into itself.
That was a lot of densely packed bad noise.
It's straight, not bent, but at such a..... google it.
They probably do better in concert.
poo w/ me?
i poop tothis
:D
tesco
Yeah I understand you, but then this "noise" is priceles,, because i can do the same only with my speakers - i will open my pc, take the input jack of speakers and touch my PCs motherboard on random places and it will produce the same noise as this. And the quote:,, If my music is noise to you..." is big bullshit, I can make better quote:,,If my balls are ugly for you, you are ugly for me.". So merzbow isnt any artist, cause he makes things that can everybody do too.
All fans of this must be vegans?
The Clash were pretty shit as well I suppose...
noise
Yeah but then the word "music" loses its meaning, because then you can call music everything like police siren combined with sound of engine or something. IMHO merzbow and other is more noise than music.Tell me please - how can you listen this longer than 1 minute? I can not imagine how irritating it is...
no simplemente no
I still dont get the right "usage" for this bullshit.
wtf is this?
Noise music by one of the biggest names in the genre
I hate it.
need this on cd