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Good call. The book I had in mind in my post upthread was an essay collection entitled Modernity and the Hegemony of Vision, and Martin Jay had a piece in it. The collection's editor was a prof of mine at the time, so I read it in manuscript and helped out a bit with editorial matters. The...

Typical mis-statement I've come to associate with dissensians: "[in the US] . . . very few people are adamantly pro-choice anymore." What? Total bullshit. How do you quantify "very few people" in the US anyway? If you're a Brit, you don't know what you're talking about, if you're in the US...

I guess I don't understand the premise of this thread at all. If you are asking why 'sound art' isn't treated in the same way as the visual arts, the obvious answer is that 'sound art' is a very recent phenomenon, with a few strands streaming out from Russolo et alii but the vast majority of it...

You referred to this idea before and I was wondering where Simon says/writes this? I'm not doubting it, just curious. Personally, I don't know much at all about the meaning of "noise" in a UK context (and I've not seen the Wire issue with WH in it) but the suggestion that noise must "offend"...

Don't know that "danger" is the right word for it, sounds awfully corny to me. Danger is e.g. life in Iraq under occupation, not kids listening to bass-heavy music in UK clubs

If we're going down the Sightings/Magik Markers/related road, there's a whole crop of great bands worth mentioning. The mighty Mouthus, for one, who are just ridiculously perversely sicko great. I wouldn't typically call them 'rock' though. But yeah, Mouthus.

Is this a joke? I give up.

Hip-hop had barely begun in the 1980s? No chart hits in the 1980s? That's nonsense. Not only were there chart hits, but hip-hop began to penetrate popular culture at the same time - Beat Street, Breakin,' and Breakin 2 were popular films released in NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR. I chuckle at your...

Forum pedantry alive and well! Obviously I didn't say that, ffs ...

Rural kids in remote areas of the US midwest were listening to hip-hop in the eighties. You know, they had radios and televisions/MTV too. Hip-hop, Michael Jackson, Duran Duran, Prince, Janet Jackson, Neneh Cherry, Bobby Brown, Human League, Flock of Seagulls, pop of all varieties - right...

No, it is not an equivalent, because in a country (US) where millions upon millions of people from the south to the midwest to the northwest to the southwest etc, live in non-urban areas, the word 'white trash' can mean almost anything, depending on where you are and who's using it. To the city...

Ecstatic Peace. You can read more/hear a couple of tracks here: http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/news_html/062907_update.html

fwiw, friends who've lived for extended periods of time in both the UK and US have repeatedly told me that there is simply no exact equivalent for the "chav" style/phenomenon/culture/whatever in the US (no value judgment intended in that, just an anthropological observation). Similarities...

The new Magik Markers record will receive a lot of attention when it's released next month, I'd guess.

David Wertman was the third member, on bass.

As that particular trio, it looks like there was only one record, entitled Visions of the Third Eye. http://www.sunmuserecords.homestead.com/DavidWertmanDiscography.html The record is on the label Mustevic, by the way. Maybe there's more.

As that particular trio, it looks like there was only one record, entitled Visions of the Third Eye. http://www.sunmuserecords.homestead.com/DavidWertmanDiscography.html The record is on the label Mustevic, by the way. Maybe there's more somewhere . . . .

Bennett has a blog called "Afro Noise." On it he recently mentioned a track made by norman william long, a good friend of mine who is an extraordinary sound artist and with whom I've been collaborating and playing shows lately doing live electronics as a duo. Norm's also a fascinating...

nice!

nice interview, pleasure to read! substantive and in-depth, touches on interesting issues, great mix too, but that almost goes without saying 'cos it's Meme :D