Beach Boys vs Fushitsusha

[Howard, Jesse]

I was careful not to bring up the industrial/free noise cross-over because
a)contrary to many of my friends' beliefs, it is not "popular" music (try
playing it at your next holiday gathering) and b)the lines between sampling
and electro-acoustic noise and pure signal generation are growing more and
more blurred by the day, particularly as international collaborative efforts
(negativland, ground zero, etc.) spread.  I like to think it is
revolutionary music, but thankfully not in the way that Grateful Dead and
Dick Dale are often construed to be.
But I do think that these more abstract projects share a certain vision with
Brian Wilson's early efforts, particularly a love of random noise bursts and
transient sounds as a means of expressing the response to what seems to be
an increasingly complex world.
I can't say I really see the connection between the new noise scene and
Pynchon, other than in my Mind (I often read GR passages while listening to
Merzbow or Boredoms), but I know a certain sonic artist who writes
compositions "...for bondage performance".
And we know ole Tom has tread that ground a few times.

jch

On Monday, December 07, 1998 4:11 PM, pporteous at worley.co.nz
[SMTP:pporteous at worley.co.nz] wrote:
> >and the ill-fated Beach Boys "Sunflower" album
> >which, to my knowledge, hasn't yet been released on CD (does anybody know
> >if it has?),
> 
> >Do you mean "Smile"
> 
> 
> It obviously has a few names - I have a double album (vinyl) comprising
> "Pet Sounds" and "Smiley Smile". It is wonderfully falling apart
> (musically)! and now that we've worked Guitar Wolf into the list
> discussion, lets try and stretch for Fushitsusha and their cohorts
> (Japanese noise guitar, evolving out of the industrial assembly line
sounds
> of the Ford Corporation et al?)
> 
> peter
>