Category: Noise

  • Cairns: Soundwalking with the Dead

    Cairns: Soundwalking with the Dead
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    The Green-Wood Cemetery is not just a traditional home for the dead, but a vibrant living space to connect with nature and culture. Local musician Gelsey Bell offers visitors a guided immersion in Brooklyn’s oldest and largest necropolis through her soundwalk Cairns, available for download on Bandcamp.  Beneath light, angelic singing, I was ushered into… Read more

  • Raven Chacon, Che Chen, C. Spencer Yeh @ The Stone, NYC, 11/9/2024

    Raven Chacon, Che Chen, C. Spencer Yeh @ The Stone, NYC, 11/9/2024
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    Noise is generally defined as unwanted sound. So why is there a genre called noise music? Who wants to hear the unwanted? Maybe noise isn’t unwanted but undefinable. A conventional song might express some viewpoint or emotion through verses and a chorus. Usually one melody–either a voice singing or rapping or an instrument soloing–soars over… Read more