PBK Live Experimental Noise Drone Music, NY 2004

[KaSuWorkshop]

love it!!!

[IsaacOfWolfbreed]

This is really cool

[lloplop]

dope. i lived in new paltz last summer

[CursesNoise6]

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who works with a turn table. The vast array of sonic artifacts that can be explored via vinyl are too numerous to ignore as a sound artist. Are you manipulating the output signal of the table or the vinyl itself? I've found that steak knives and contact mics work great on my table. Great work man,

[pbksound]

@CursesNoise6 thanks for the kind words, friend. i agree with you totally. i manipulate the output and the vinyl itself, i drop random small items on the vinyl to knock the needle around, use cutup flexi's, tilt the lp on the spindle, melt lp's and try to warp them, etc. for this live performance i was manipulating a Jackie Gleason lounge LP that i had found earlier that day in a used record store.

[BrittonDeJong]

this isnt music, its a form of art and a hobby

[jedidraco89]

this is music?...................i think not

[leternebre]

this is lovely.

[zja42188]

FUCKING RETARDED. I YOU LIKE THIS, YOU HAVE BRAIN DAMAGE.

[vgmaster9]

Have you tried doing music like Pierre Schaeffer did?

[YOUrezahnpastaTUBE]

great job

[gahzeyboe]

I don't get it...

[maxellsector]

Is it the end of vinyl connected to Korg filters?

[DevasionRecords]

who the fuck places anything negative on something like this?????? IT'S FUCKING NOISE PPL YOU DENSE RETARDS!!!!! NOT LADY GAGY & DUBSTEP - FAIL ---DJ Oxygen

[hiyou2468]

GOOD!!



[segundamuerte]

greetings great music

[malkane316]

I made a noise once in my pants. It was David Guetta.

[CodyRicheson]

If you guys like this check out Premature Ejaculation, a noise project from the 80s/90s featuring Rozz Williams.

[xPikaWolfx]

Anyone know how much the noise music equipment costs? I'm quite interested. I experimented with this using a circuit on a copper clad board where I put two push-to-make switches and a transistor (I think that's what it was called, I made this at school when they said we could make anything we wanted for 2 hr lesson) and I used to wet my finger and kind of "scratch" the back of hte transistor and it would make interesting noise sounds. I'll try to find it :x

[bpwonderkid]

@xPikaWolfx It sounds like you can make your own instruments, thats cool. Just keep experimenting. I don't think you have to spend a lot or get any specific type

of equipment for music like this which makes it great.

[murrdy]

@xPikaWolfx

That was called a contact mic, it was made from a piezo disc with two wires soldered to it, it's very common in noise music, it's very cheap to make, other common equipment includes cheap junky guitar pedals normally used in a feedback loop with a mixer. but even more common is to forgo all convention and do whatever the hell you want with anything you like

[drag0nfig0]

Have to be tone deaf to like this. I understand now. 

[matisitam666]

i cant hear any tracks of music :D

[Scalzolini]

catchy!

[MelvinWren]

i think his shits broken....

[MrDrpersonman]

Sounds like he's cooking bacon...

[Kevvl14]

It actually kinda hurts my ears, but if other people like it, good on them I guess. o_o

[cedarvalley]

A true Wizard of Oz Noisecian.

[boingboomchak]

Ur noise is really like the memories of stars as they absorb or old noises from the past. I had a really cool LP of industrial/noise groups in the 80's glad 2 c its still alive.

[Arachnomen]

I don't get it x) first I thought it was something wrong with my speakers xD

[smashmonkeyEXTREME]

subway station

[javwelly]

texas chainsaw meets fear and loathing, maybe u could open up for the backstreet boys? i joke, this is seriosly interesting stuff, u cant possibly make a mistake though ;-)

[777v666]

Yeah but it's about creativity. Who cares if he cant play a note on the guitar? Get me? Oh yes and very nice noise PBK.

[natesot]

thanks.

[natesot]

love the clip as well as the sound, do you have any recordings?

[pbksound]

many recordings available... check the url's in the info section above- also, for free album downloads go to The Sound Genetic on blogger, search google for it.

[3lectroDark]

yeah goood job I LOVE MUSIC NOISE

[Assiman]

experimental music is the best. I've got something like 6 albums full of noise, dark ambient, drone etc. It's the best

[Yantz11]

theres this local band called the noise, and theyre just siiiick

[metALLIca15091993]

This is weird. If I were in the right mood, I may just be able to enjoy it, 'cause it's soooo trippy. :)

Right now, though, I'm not really enjoying it at all. :(

[antharamors]

Sweet!!! one of my best friends plays  Noise music!!!

[H2Zman]

well...this is creepy.

[Jamesnpk]

WTF, this is strange.

would work so well for so much horror stuff though well glad i found this genre :)

[DivineMasterToad]

one time I was riding home in my friends car on LSD, and I asked him, what CD is this? and he replied, "you know very well I do not have a radio in this car"

ever since then, listening to the music of nature, the music in what seems like chaos, has been one of my favorite things to do! There is a symphony hidden in every scream, every scratch, every gurgling feedback or echoing resonating reverberation, rock on! *****

[DIRRNITIT]

fucking retard -100000

[DivineMasterToad]

fucking genius +∞

[itsmedude1020]

@DivineMasterToad Absolutely man. That's great that you got to experience this reality in such a personal way.

[lankyGigantic]

Is it only me who gets reminded of Aphex Twin?

Oh, and Salad Fingers?

[OddBank]

this July 9th,10th,11th (((NOISE SHOCK))) II will be held in Chicago and East Moline IlliNOISE..

you all are invited.

[AlwaysDreamChaser]

i like noise sounds..... dont know why...

[BigHead013]

From an artistic point of view I think its a really intresting concept.

But from my musical point of view.....Not so much.

[bioduck42]

I downloaded one of his free albums off of Last FM.Its really weird.Like, experimental dark ambient, but noise at the same time.Not harsh noise though.

[PlankKydo]

Noise music is nothing new.

After WWI, there was a movement called DaDa. The Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich was where they performed. Among the things they did:

Nonsense poetry of pure verbal noises without words, or erratic/mindless arrangements of words.

Art made by randomly throwing elements at canvas and gluing them where they land.

Some of their plays included noise machines; devices designed to simply make loud noise. Their intent was to try and drown out the nonsense poets.

[pbksound]

Remember also the Italian Futurist movement, circa 1910-1915. Luigi Russolo wrote the manifesto "The Art Of Noises", essential to the birth of "noise music".

[TheChavStabber]

Those devices were the "intonarumori" - You're right about noise being nothing new, it's only that nowadays the means to produce noise are more accessible. The groups you mention didn't create noise solely to drown out poets, the influence of the industrial age also played a large part. For me, noise is the purest form of music and the harsher the better! I love the history and art of it but too many people vanish up their own arses with it. Keep it noise!

[vondugle]

I personally think this is kind of cool

and for those of you who don't....

don't listen to it.....to each his own right?

[greendayddd]

this sucks...

its not music... and if u think it is and are going to lecture people about being open-minded im gonna go ahead and be shocked at the pretentious piece of shit you are...

[junglebeatz23]

this is not music xD

it is broken radio...

but idiots who listen it have big choice of radois:

every frequention where is no radio

squeeeeeze...wrouuum...bzzzzz.­...huuuu... xD

vrz..prc..mňáááááu...kvííííí..­kvááá...goood lyrics

[OrnelaKrilin]

music have many varietes and this is noise experimental electronic music. do you know what a style of music will prefered in 2209? hm

[junglebeatz23]

i don't care

fuck year 2209 xD

i think i wiil not here in this year...

and this is not real music

it must be very interest dance to this xD

[PlankKydo]

You don't, normally. Though with the really loud scary stuff, I suppose you could mosh, if other people go along with it. Why the fuck not?

BTW: Music or not, good or bad, it is art.

Personally, I'm not fond of this particular guy's technique. I don't think it's a very nice use of white noise elements

Go read some DaDa poetry.

[Nniikkool]

finally someone normal xD this is not music...i don't know how they can listen this

[sinmantyx]

Wow - a noise vs. music debate!

lmao

[3510211]

Is that the same basement where he cooks meth?

[alex540live]

Yeaaahhh this is so cool :) The guy is a real musician. His sounds evolve so smootly and the piece has a form, this is brilliant

[Assiman]

As John Lennon said about his "revolution 9": "this is the music of future, because everyone can make it". But the truth is, not all noise is interesting. You can mix different ideas to it, it's not all the same as some of you might think.

You guys are saying (in theory) here that you are white and noise music is made by niggers. Think about it.

[steezitup]

no vibrations

no mathematical patterns

no expression

no point

is it really that hard to come up with something original that youve come to the point that you make noise by using objects involving music and call it art

what if i made the same noise with a refrigerator handle a pencil and a frisbee would that be considered music?

idk maybe i havent done LSD yet

[Assiman]

Idiot.

If you don't know anything about noise, stop commenting.

[Naynap81086]

Obviously there are vibrations, patterns, expression, and purpose behind this; I don't think this guy is doing this for the money.

If you made noise with a refrigerator handle, pencil, and frisbee, I WOULD consider it music and it would be pretty damn cool.

And I don't think drugs are necessary to appreciate this, because I doubt guys like John Cage or Stockhausen were tripping while reinterpreting the role that "noises" play in musical expression, ideas which remain hugely influential.

[stitchedsky]

purple

[cisumesouh]

Its intresting for a short time. The idea is eternally intresting. And in fact it maakes more sense to be the soundrack to these times we live in than other formulas of music. The ' fuck u ' nature of it is good. I like the comment below about '' anyone can do it'' . I just wonder if George Bush was to do this, would all the leftfield art folks appreciate it. Personality-envirnment must play a part in the insistence that its to be treated seriously. I love you YOKO.

[Fatboi8923]

ok anyone can mess around with a radio dial and call it 'art' or dare i say 'music', go on call me closed minded. and ill call you pretentious

[MKULTRA63]

I shall call you close minded, oafish and infantile. Open your mind and while you are at it learn the most common use of a shift key. ( Hint, it is for capitalization Sparky. ) Go play with your comic books andPower Rangers. Perhaps we can discuss " art "when your testicles have descended.

[Fatboi8923]

yes, because anyone who doesn't appreciate 15 minutes of white noise is prepubescent and plays with power rangers.

[Szaam]

And because "anyone can do it," that renders it unartistic?

[lovemelodiesnintendo]

Exactly! Anyone can paint, anyone can learn the guitar, anyone can state that they worship Fall Out Boy on their myspace profile, and anyone can make sound art/noise. It's all a matter of opinion, personal taste, and what aesthetics we find comforting.

[TheSilverFlyingCigar]

and that's a nice, adult way of thinking.

[EtcEtcAndEtc]

Oh Fatboi you can do this can you? rilly? I don't think so. Don't talk shit about things you don't understand. If you can't read japanese, don't try to be a japanese literature critic. You're the pretentious one here, because clearly you know nothing about what you're talking about. Lokk the word up in a dictionary some time you doofus.

[ChaosIgnition]

Pretty awesome.

And for those of you that don't think noise is music, judge however you wish... but you're just pointing out how incredibly closed minded you are. Noise is a genre of music, it may not be traditional in any form of the word, but that doesn't prevent it from being a form of music. :3

[kneepop]

I like rock music but this stuff is really interesting and fun to listen to.

[xcaluhbration]

This is something only a stoner could appreciate. "Its about rebelling against the mainstream". My ass. Its Noise, Hence Noise Music. Dont make it some deep fucking thing its just something that you cant appreciate unless your high on X or blowed out of your mind. If you like it fine but dont make it out to be more than what it is. A monkey could make this. And the problem with listening to something that clears your mind is it leaves your mind vulnerable on a subconcious level.

[obie1963]

As a subjective text, music is only as valuable as the listener wants it to be. No piece of music is more valuable than another. Meaning comes from a personal relationship with music, it is not internal. Whether or not a monkey can make noise music is irrelevant. I could teach a monkey to play Chopin on the piano but that wouldn't change the nature of the music. I don't use drugs and I appreciate noise music.

And nothing is "more than what it is". That would be illogical.

[Szaam]

That is easily the best thing I've ever read.

[bobber0002]

I watched 5 minutes and there was just some static. When does the music start?

[SomeShows]

In addition to my prior statement, I'd like to point out that Government Alpha has played this same basement. The videos are on here, so search them if interested.

[SomeShows]

The people who talk against the practice of Noise are the true narrow minded individuals who need to rethink their statements. I remember first popping in the Government Alpha/Bastard Noise Split CD and listening to the first track. It made me extremely uncomfortable. But this was good. It was the first time I had heard a piece of music and could come out of it saying "That honestly gave me a feeling unlike any other." To me, mainstream music played on the radio cannot achieve the same effect.

[KillingSpreeFreesBee]

I AGREE 100% SINGING = GAY PERIOD.

[BrendanIsCool]

get a job.

[evamaquess]

¡Muy bueno! es tiempo de dejar participar el sonido al azar, sin improvisar, alejandonos de este cuadriculado mundo sistematizado.  TONY MARQUEZ.

[4321Blastoff]

I love guitars and drums but noise is cool. If I had the stuff to do it I'd mess around for hours coming up with weird sounds just to enjoy myself.

[ohilikeyou]

Yes. That spot over there was just too known. Too safe and familiar the Family and kids.

This that I'm talking about. It disrupts the old beaten pattern. Just a thought>

My thoughts could mislead me. This could have been all along the route to go. But I go anyway. In hopes that not everything this world has to offer, has bearn its mark.

[7Row7enn7]

Great music. Add me.

[ministerofdarkness]

Who pissed in vinceattack007 cheerios? if your so pissed off where's your video. i am a practicing musician as well and appreciate a good song, but i don't have a problem with someone trying to do something different.

[Biopharmer]

bla bla bla, whine whine whine, you're all losers, music is whatever. Life is whatever. The only laws, are the laws of physics. There is no etiquette, there is no government. The only thing that is certain is death. What you see doesn't even exist. And whoever invented this philosophy is a loser.

BTW, nice korg. And peace isn't the answer either.

[vinceattack007]

this is just a loop hole for people who want to be called musicians but dont want to take the time to learn a real instrument. do you feel like you achieved something? anyone with a bunch of junk laying around could do this. i mean, could you play the exact same thing twice in at two different shows. this is so offensive to people like me who work there ass off for years to be good at what i do and then some jack off comes and only has to work on putting his garbage radios together. fuck off

[appletreeforyou]

you sound offended or intimidated by this performance. if all those years of practicing have paid off, maybe you'd be a little more confident in your ability as a musician and wouldn't need to post a comment about somebody else music like that. just a thought.

[slavaTG]

jazz musicians cannot play their improvisations several times in a row. this is music making as a process. great job, PBK!

[cheek]

I think you're narrow minded...

[HermanChess]

Music is not just learning to repeat elitist compositions and verse chorus verse structures, music is the ability to stimulate the brain through sounds and create feelings... it's all about feelings, after all we are beings drived by feelings. If I hear something and it creates feelings in me, I liked it. We have to end this judgement of art by comparison "its not good because its not similar to the good stuff...its bad because it different to what is considered good" If it makes me feel,itsGood

[BrendanIsCool]

amen dude.

[Septicaemia]

This is technically music, if you analyse it by its definition. It's a collection of pitched noises and rhythm that culminate to form a piece of artistic vision. I like to think of this more as ambience or soundscape rather than music, though.

[7Row7enn7]

ood music.

[r3mote]

I think that if there is an insult to music and art in general it is pop music, things like american idol... art is the space outside the box. I've heard this type of music before way late on the radio... is it in a specific genre ... a name I could search for. I wanna start adding this stuff to my music collection and build knowledge of it.

[filter31]

I love this shit. Good job dude. Noise is music if you really understand music.

[skimf0rlife]

this is a disgrace to music and i laugh at the fact that people listen to this

[flamethrower1411]

hmm it could use a bit more work...

but its good so far ^.^

[vinceattack007]

If there is a way to insult music and musicians as a whole.... this is it.

[Hawkbongz]

small minded retards like you are the real insult

[Serbie69]

I dunno... I mean I can see how the people who like it like it, but its not for me. I had to give it a chance and its very interesting to listen to all the noises. I like how its almost fear evoking. Everyone who is saying bad shit about this, eat your words. This could be what the music of the future sounds like...

[SiL3NTSaM]

some nice textures here

[uhj4]

that's great!just try experimental band TACUARA NOD, available on youtube

[trancesolar]

and... where´s the music??

[IceFloeHyoga]

It's an experimental improvisation retarded,

"where´s the music??", "where´s the music??", what do you expect?

[trancesolar]

Take it easy bro´... retar???!!! maybe you...!! That´s noise.. not music!! Where´s the music Icefloedwarf!! Are you a musician??

[IceFloeHyoga]

Ok trancesolar, forgive me for saying to you "retarded". And yes!, I am a musician too and in this type of art this improvisation is been worth and interesting.

[trancesolar]

OK brother... PAZ... me gusta el Noise... pero me desesperaaaa jeejejj!!!! PEACE BROTHER...!

[IceFloeHyoga]

Paz hermano...

[cheek]

Experimental/Improvisation are excuses for people to make screwed up music...

[EvasionManifest]

Really cool stuff.

[0161775]

pile of wank

[IceFloeHyoga]

Yeah sorry, this don't deep like Alanis Morissette and Oasis...

[alfons00p]

cool

[sixfeet89]

man your radio got broken!!!!! for fuck sake..

[IceFloeHyoga]

man your brain is broken, do you know that?

[QtuonrA]

wow sounds great man, check my shit too

[sixfeet89]

and it does sound like shit

[IceFloeHyoga]

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[Acidmarx]

noise

mas y mas

ruido blanco

vamos!

[gzr0]

Hey man , i think you got a problem with your gear? a dodgy connector or sumin?

eh?

[IceFloeHyoga]

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[einunbekanntertyp]

wow!

[FreedomGotAnAK]

He musta had some BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD chili.

[FreedomGotAnAK]

I am referring to the beginning, it sounds like some guy with the screaming shits. But the music is great.

[loggyhill]

Sounds like pop corn popping...

[candlebar]

Pure Art!!!

[markhutch]

wow this is awesome man! phenomenal!

[KrakenSoundscapes]

Very good.

[ixkey]

This is REALLY GOOD experimental noise music. 5 stars definitely.

[carloisola]

Very good experience.

[ourigin]

I'm always so interested in what set-ups people have, and use for noise. If anyone knows what his was, or wants to tell me about their own I would love to know.

[Nicetry75]

all i can really point out for sure is the mini moog in the back. or is it a korg? hmmm. The turntable looks similar to a Numark I saw a while back. I'll try to get back to you on the other stuff.

[jerryeblades]

play it twice exactly the same time each time....

[KezBizarre]

Heard some of yer sounds, now i see some of yer sounds too! Awesome!!!

XoX

[ppllaann]

WOW, Must see!

[LFORSK]

fuckin cool man....thumbs up

[tvpro]

i have an idea for a band setup being:

drums

guitar

turntables

[webofmimicry]

wow what a concept

[DefacedCREATI0N]

realy cool, love the turntable stuff, and the slurpy one.

respect

[belchkitchen]

fascinating,it's boiling,cooking,scorching,i go check your kitchen, drone-on q

[migraneboy2006]

Sounds interesting.. a chore to listen to with this crappy sound quality tough, but sounds really organic with alot of textures. Some really good shit goes down at the 8min marker! some visuals would have been nice altough that turntable work was cool!! I´ll be cheking out the mp3s :)

[dilalaylom]

inspirationally experi mental trip in. on and on. love!

[HoursTillDawn]

~Very nice~

[noiseinc]

inspiring.respect.

[shenaniganstv]

i have seen these dudes play and it gets way intense. keep on making great noises.

love

[BrainOcho]

this guy needs a midget onstage with him. otherwise cool.

[EarlyLAPunk]

...make that a breakdancing midget...:)

[pbksound]

This live setup consists of cd players, turntable, analog synth, and effects. No way to tell exactly where the high-pitched sound source originates, but it doesn't seem to be coming from the turntable.

[Absinthus]

You got skills. :O

Whats that screaching, hauling sound that fades in after a couple of mins? Not he LP?