Well I haven't checked out Merzbow myself, but it's on my to-check list...Vivaldi wrote:To that end, from what I heard, I'd contend in a non-subjective way that, at least from the pieces I heard, Merzbow is not music, but rather noise.
Anyway I heard Merzbow is just noise, but so? Hitting some drums with your sticks or hitting strings on your guitar is not noise?
Anyway last time I was in the store and I went up the escalator, then I heard something cool... I thought it was some kind of ambient music, thus I looked up to the speakers... but there where non... I needed a few secs to realise that what I was hearing was actually the escalator which was grinding somewhere... it was actually beautiful and relaxing...
Why some bands use vacuum cleaners for their music got much clearer to me that day xD
Do I want to say something with that? I don't know, I just felt to type that out right now.
For the rest of the thread I'm with Beowulf...