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• The Noise Room

Xdugef - Bosslady - 05-Sep-08 11:05 AM
This Cd arrives in a jewel case which is wrapped in "re-sealable sextape", the artwork is in part cut ups from female domination magazines and included with the cd is a single black latex glove. Xdugef is aka Adrian Dimond a noise maker from Los Angeles whose work is produced from found sources on the internet, from modified electronic toys and self made devices. There are 17 fairly short tracks, and on one we do hear the boss lady speak - but as elsewhere the whole work is a mix of pulses and beats, glitches and feedback. This has to be one of the most significant pieces Ive yet reviewed. If noise contradicts itself by obliterating itself - and here we have that - and the actuality of the fucking up not only of sound but the mechanisms for making sound - which though is doubly inscribed by the whole iconography and ontology of female domination. A reversal of traditional roles yet one which is generally opposed by feminists - an interesting aporia which is the sexual doppelganger of the noise genre. It was Merzbow who famously created the problematic of noise paralleled by the exploitation of female bondage which was "carried" off by the excuse? of being part of an oriental culture- and so art! - the feminist critic becomes racist or tolerates female exploitation, imposes colonial values or allows the pornographic- the music isnt music but noise - yet we are in a double bind as it clearly is just that. Our value judgments flip backwards and forwards like computer logic gates, western logic and the rule of the excluded middle is broken - do we obtain what used to be called freedom? Do I enjoy the kitsch of noise/glitches - fishnets and arse as an intellectual comment - or as is - or both? Perfect. (Jliat) -Reposted with permission

Édouard-Léon Scott De Martinville - Au Clair De La Lune - 28-Mar-08 06:58 PM
Its gritty and very lo-fi but it is also hauntingly beautiful. Given the conditions it was recording under all that can be forgiven. You can almost smell the lamp soot during the fleeting seconds of this historic recording.

Even more interesting is that this recording was made using a format that could not even be played back until the 20th century. It truly is a time capsule of sorts filled with the dusty sound from a bygone era.

I had never heard of Édouard-Léon Scott De Martinville until this recording surfaced but now that I have I will have to check out more phonautographs.