... and dredging up something that was brought to my attention a couple weeks ago, a documentary about noise artists in Portland, Oregon will soon be out, and it's called "People Who Do Noise" (trailer below)
And this video response, as it were, is hardly meant to fully answer the question, but rather to shed a little light on a particular community of people who do art through sound in this way, using these means. Political, aesthetic, and even purely hedonistic-seeming discursive threads can be seen running through each of the little blurbs of interviewees shown in the trailer. The portrayals, brief as they are, seem to indicate a group of people who have taken stock of their surroundings and worked out little niches for themselves to explore and share with each other, in contrast to how some detractors of experimental music would probably, at first exasperated and dismissive, tag perceived members of any avant-garde with trying to outdo each other in terms of pushing the envelope and doing what had yet to be done. I hope to be able to catch this movie when it comes out to see how well it will be executed as a film and also to hopefully catch some interesting presentations of music.
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haha! the only band name i recognized at the end was (DEAD!) yellow swans... i saw them open for xiu xiu in 2005... that would def. be interesting to watch that ... i just wish that type of music was more varied / had more singing / melody? which is kind of odd i guess but i like catchy combined with experimental more than either of them seperate... my sister is actually in portland .. she just moved there but i guess she's getting into the weird scene there and her room-mate is good buddies with a guy from Excepter [who are pretty good at times... but the funniest thing is that they have a +5hour song / mp3 that was just... INSANE to listen to all in one go but i did it!)
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