Paul Hegarty: Noises
“As Kahn rightly notes, there is no noise without the thought of noise, and ideas about sound can therefore “make an audible event called noise louder than it might already be” [2] - noises come from specific places and specific conceptualisations. At some level, the use of noise is a bid (however unwitting) to master it (at least in Western modernism), and reduce its quality as noise: “avant-garde noise, in other words, both marshals and mutes the noise of the other: power is attacked at the expense of the less powerful, and society itself is both attacked and reinforced” [3].”
Full With Noise: Theory and Japanese Noise Music; Noise Music; The Hallucinatory life of tape [posted on Mediateletipos]




















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