Fight your own war : power electronics and noise culture / edited by Jennifer Wallis.

Contributor(s): Language: English Publisher: [London] : Headpress, 2016Description: iii, 255 sidor illustrationerContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781909394407
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 786.7 23/swe
Contents:
Foreword / Mike Dando -- Introduction / Jennifer Wall -- PART I SCENES. The Genesis of Power Electronics in the UK / Philip Taylor -- Maurizio Bianchi: Symphony for a Genocide / Andrew Cooke -- The Rise of Power Electronics in Finland / Mikko Aspa -- RJF: Greater Success in Appreciation & Convictions and Blood Ov Thee Christ: Master Control / Richard Stevenson -- Order of the Boot. Interdiction by Force: Streicher and the Growth of Power : Electronics In Australia / Ulex Xane -- Streicher: Annihilism and Kulmhof: Morality's Simulacra / Richard Stevenson -- Chronicling US Noise and Power Electronics / Scott E. Candey -- Werewolf Jerusalem: Confessions of a Sex Maniac / Grant Hobson -- A Physical Legacy: The Enduring Role of Underground Zines : Some personal musings from the creator of Spectrum Magazine and Noise Receptor Journal / Richard Stevenson -- PART II EXPERIENCE AND PERFORMANCE. The Power of Performance / Nathan Clemence -- Consumer Electronics: Estuary English / Richard Stevenson -- "The Horror! The Horror!" Leeds Termite Club and British Noise History / d foist -- The Bongoleeros: The Fat Arse'd Report / Tom Bench -- Power [Electronics]: Exploring Liveness In Japanese Noise / Daniel Wilson -- Hijokaidan: Emergency Stairway to Heaven / Duncan Taylor -- Listening to the Void: Harsh Noise Walls / Clive Henry -- Sounding the Abyss: Schloss Tegal's Black Static Transmission / Stephen Sennitt -- The Creative Process of Uneasy Listening: Noise from the Deathtripping Perspective / Nick Nihilist -- Stalker Process / Bindweed -- Noise, Rhythm, and Excess from Whitehouse to Cut Hands / Jack Sargeant -- PART III READINGS. Questionable Intent: The Meaning and Message of Power Electronics / Richard Stevenson -- Genocide Organ: And The Gray Wolves: Blood and Sand / Richard Stevenson -- Object Histories. The Black (Visual) Economy of Power Electronics / Jennifer Wallis -- The Servitudes of Slapstick: A Comedy of Violence / Spencer Grady -- Farce the First Time Round? Encountering Noise as Comedy / Paul Margree -- Brut - The Killjoy of `White 'Noise / Sonia Dietrich -- Dave Phillips: 6 / Clive Henry -- Talking about Noise: The Limits of Language / Kevin Matthew Jones -- Selected further reading -- Photographer links -- Editor's acknowledgments -- Contributor notes -- Index
Summary: "Power electronics is a genre of industrial or ’noise’ music that utilises feedback and synthesizers to produce an intense, loud, challenging sound. To match this sonic excess, power electronics also relies heavily upon extreme thematic and visual content a " whether in lyrics, album art, or live performance. It is a genre that often invites strong reactions from both listeners and critics, if not dismissed or ignored altogether. FIGHT YOUR OWN WAR is the first ever English-language book primarily devoted to power electronics, bringing together essays and reviews that explore the current state of the genre, from early development through to live performance, listener experience, artist motivation, gender and subcultures, such as ’Japanoise’. Written by artists, fans, and critics from around the world, FIGHT YOUR OWN WAR provides comment on a musical form that is at once theatrical and absurdist, while bringing to listeners a violent, ecstatic, and potentially consciousness-altering experience. In considering this ’spectacle’ of noise, how far can we simply label power electronics as a genre of shock tactics or of transgression for transgression’s sake?" - Omslagets baksida
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Foreword / Mike Dando -- Introduction / Jennifer Wall -- PART I SCENES. The Genesis of Power Electronics in the UK / Philip Taylor -- Maurizio Bianchi: Symphony for a Genocide / Andrew Cooke -- The Rise of Power Electronics in Finland / Mikko Aspa -- RJF: Greater Success in Appreciation & Convictions and Blood Ov Thee Christ: Master Control / Richard Stevenson -- Order of the Boot. Interdiction by Force: Streicher and the Growth of Power : Electronics In Australia / Ulex Xane -- Streicher: Annihilism and Kulmhof: Morality's Simulacra / Richard Stevenson -- Chronicling US Noise and Power Electronics / Scott E. Candey -- Werewolf Jerusalem: Confessions of a Sex Maniac / Grant Hobson -- A Physical Legacy: The Enduring Role of Underground Zines : Some personal musings from the creator of Spectrum Magazine and Noise Receptor Journal / Richard Stevenson -- PART II EXPERIENCE AND PERFORMANCE. The Power of Performance / Nathan Clemence -- Consumer Electronics: Estuary English / Richard Stevenson -- "The Horror! The Horror!" Leeds Termite Club and British Noise History / d foist -- The Bongoleeros: The Fat Arse'd Report / Tom Bench -- Power [Electronics]: Exploring Liveness In Japanese Noise / Daniel Wilson -- Hijokaidan: Emergency Stairway to Heaven / Duncan Taylor -- Listening to the Void: Harsh Noise Walls / Clive Henry -- Sounding the Abyss: Schloss Tegal's Black Static Transmission / Stephen Sennitt -- The Creative Process of Uneasy Listening: Noise from the Deathtripping Perspective / Nick Nihilist -- Stalker Process / Bindweed -- Noise, Rhythm, and Excess from Whitehouse to Cut Hands / Jack Sargeant -- PART III READINGS. Questionable Intent: The Meaning and Message of Power Electronics / Richard Stevenson -- Genocide Organ: And The Gray Wolves: Blood and Sand / Richard Stevenson -- Object Histories. The Black (Visual) Economy of Power Electronics / Jennifer Wallis -- The Servitudes of Slapstick: A Comedy of Violence / Spencer Grady -- Farce the First Time Round? Encountering Noise as Comedy / Paul Margree -- Brut - The Killjoy of `White 'Noise / Sonia Dietrich -- Dave Phillips: 6 / Clive Henry -- Talking about Noise: The Limits of Language / Kevin Matthew Jones -- Selected further reading -- Photographer links -- Editor's acknowledgments -- Contributor notes -- Index

"Power electronics is a genre of industrial or ’noise’ music that utilises feedback and synthesizers to produce an intense, loud, challenging sound. To match this sonic excess, power electronics also relies heavily upon extreme thematic and visual content a " whether in lyrics, album art, or live performance. It is a genre that often invites strong reactions from both listeners and critics, if not dismissed or ignored altogether. FIGHT YOUR OWN WAR is the first ever English-language book primarily devoted to power electronics, bringing together essays and reviews that explore the current state of the genre, from early development through to live performance, listener experience, artist motivation, gender and subcultures, such as ’Japanoise’. Written by artists, fans, and critics from around the world, FIGHT YOUR OWN WAR provides comment on a musical form that is at once theatrical and absurdist, while bringing to listeners a violent, ecstatic, and potentially consciousness-altering experience. In considering this ’spectacle’ of noise, how far can we simply label power electronics as a genre of shock tactics or of transgression for transgression’s sake?" - Omslagets baksida

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