Hugh wrote:
sorry but for me thats really stepping over fuzzy line between music and horrible horrible noise lol
music is not only "dance music"....
take a listen to some of william basinsky's music, is named electroacustic / avant-garde, or some of coil's music (avant-garde / darkwave / apocalyptic folk)....
this kind of music is not only noise, I remeber a track by duft punk that begin with a 56k modem connection noise, it is smaaart!
for eg, some of the biggest contemporary musicians use field recording for em composition (also I own a zoom H4 recorder for field recording...)...
have you sometimes tried to record two feets that walk in a grass lawn?
...well starting a track with this kind of sound is awesome!
and if you sculpt it with a granular synth u'll go in ec-stasi (from original latin meaning of the word)
for eg, take a listen to one of my track named "one thoughts about" or "ROM - read only memory", this two tracks are builded only with field recording, noises, delay's feedbacks, deconstructed noises etc..., so please take a listen and tell me if you define these "noise".
I think, NO!
@ the basement of this kinds of music there is "tape music" that was invented and adopted by Karlheinz Stockhausen,
could you define Karlheinz Stockhausen a musician?
I define him the biggest music scientist of 1900 with brian eno, luciano berio, cage, Richard D. James (afx) and so on..
the difference is all in ur audio perception, the newest concept of music do not distinguish between "noise" and "sound", is only your perception, all is relative to your perception / mood / feel
in "core" music, this concept is extended and extremized due to the inland nature of aggression and aggressivity of the creation.
peace.