Whats the deal with Harsh Noise?

Think layers of texture more than of songs i guess.

>>68267737
The Velvet Undergound revolutionized noise music

Sometimes you just want to hear a loud wall of sound

>>68267737
I think it's strongly related to the general nihilism of the generation born during Word War II all over the world

Basically you had a Western generation of youth who saw that all the advances of Western civilization had just caused utter shit - no respect for any older generation.

This is most evident in post-war Germany - country divided to two, the generation of parents exposed as vile nazis and all that war crime stuff. It was there that young people like Peter Brötzmann - feeling no connection to any pas generation's art - came up with music like Machine Gun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27CpT79NMhQ

And it would take root elsewhere - young artists not feeling a connection to any past art started looking into violent forms, breaking molds as they went - more strongly at first where the war was lost like Germany and Japan.

>>68267964
So is it meant to represent extreme violence as a grotesque thing, or an interpretation of war and violence?

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~randall/Readings%20W2/Attali_Jacques_Noise_The_Political_Economy_of_Music.pdf

read up.

>>68268165
thanks, I will work on reading this

>>68267737
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqxe3NZKYL0
not harsh but might help you see the appeal

>>68267737
I don't know any interviews, but harsh noise is the expression of highly textured sound unadulterated by the confines of traditional music. Every popular style plays in 3/4, or 4/4 and it has some kind of hook. Noise dispels those rigid characteristics and defines itself as sound with many possibilities beyond certain confines. Also some people just like grating sound grinding their eardrums and having itchy ear canals.