What's your favourite, non-Velvets Sterling Morrison project? ...Moe Tucker project? ...Doug Yule project?
im not familiar with what S. Morrison did outside of the velvets...
not sure if Angus MacLise can be considered to have ever been a "member" -- wasnt he either asked to join and turned them down, or was actually one of them for a brief time, like 2 days, and then left, saying what the band wanted to do was just too boring? -- anyhow i like his solo recordings a lot. now there's some psych-noise avant rock.
incidentally, anyone ever heard the rock band la Monte Young formed? i bought the 2 CD live recording in a used bin a long time ago and loved it, imagine Well Tuned Piano performed by the Dead... (but the CDs were mistreated and long lost -- realized too late that its super rare)
yes some props must be given to the gesture of MMM, given the context others have mentioned (year, major label, etc.)... but speaking as someone who has listened to a TON of atonal, monotonous, one-note records over the years, its just forgettable (like, immediately after)
There'd be heaps of stuff from the academy and art worlds though, e.g. Steve Reich's Pendulum Music is just feedback from microphones swinging past each other above a floor-mounted speaker, so they eventually turn into a constant shriek of feedback as they come to rest. Late 60s from memory.
the history of noise is ground well covered, no? futurists - dada - concrete - etc. etc.
but still must mention people like Eliane Radigue, Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaeffer here... so many Noise (by all definitions) recordings made by them and many others like them in the 50s. saw Henry perform a few months ago, non eventful, and only just for sake of able to tell my grand kids, should i ever have any, and should they by chance become music nerds like us.
reich's pendulum music is a very elegant piece. sculptural on both physical and aural levels... michael you saw the original performance of it in the late 60s?!?!?! WTF?
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