People Who Do Noise (2008) Full Concert Movie Documentary

[@elimpulsodeshatov5997]

Noise changed my life, I have tinnitus. Be careful and enjoy it!

[@d1ssolv3r]

Before or after? Hahahah. I had tinnitus before and love noise since I've found it and finally got into it. Making my own noise now.

[@Gyrbae]

Noise is fun to listen in certain dozes. It's good to take a break from melodies and harmonies and just go full on incomprehensible static wall of noise, and vice versa. Though I stopped going to live noise gigs because most of the listeners and especially the performers themselves are being self-important and smug about doing something out of the norm, and it annoyed the fuck out of me.

[@robford3211]

Gyrbae Just like language changes, music changes: 100 years ago when Stravinsky played Rites of Spring it was considered noise, now 100 years later it is considered standard repetoire and one of the classics of 20 century music.

[@musicfriendly12]

Rob Ford I also hate when people are like "wow! It's so cool! It sounds very modern and different"... I have nothing against modern music, especially not noise and japanoise, but I think that being different for the sake of being different just ruins and ignores the porpose of art... Art expresses stuff, and that should be the final objective always and that if you are new for the sake of being new then you are not an artist, you are either an art investigator or an inventor... Novelty shouldn't be forced and new is oftenly worse, cause people haven't heard or seen nothing similar and so it is a LOT harder to make...

[@tbrm_8bg193]

too

[@ChibiChubbyRobo]

Grey Man you can’t really even tell just by listening to something whether it was made just for expression, or with innovation & uniqueness in mind. Intent is irrelevant. Even YOU probably like stuff that was made hoidy toidy inventors mindset.

[@alexbaribeault]

Your comment made me respect noise music alot more

[@bizchazlien]

It's true anyone can create noise but if your heart isn;t into it, why bother? I've been doing stuff for over 24 years and do it because i love the feel of it and the over all power of creating it! Met plenty of people in the last 20+ years that tried doing noise and when they didn;t "make it" they moved on and did something more "serious" . I've met many cool folks who make noise and other forms of non "music"! Just have fun and do what YOU wanna do! CHEERS!

[@bizchazlien]

+iCakeify Hey what's up? I've known some folks that got into making noise but they did it just to be "cool" and it didn;t take long for them to quit and jump on something else like "emo"( this was awhile back ) . I say do it because you're having FUN! I've met some really snobby no sense of humor noise folks but more cool ones thankfully! I have a great joy doing this and will keep doing it as long as i enjoy doing it! It's all about creativity! Cheers! :)

[@HitmanJenkins1]

+Carlos Montana Well said. I think one of the things that people forget about Noise Music is that a lot of people involved also make other forms of music as well. Noise is one of those things that's easy to get into, but difficult to master from my experience with it.

[@bizchazlien]

+Nathan Howard Thanks and cheers man! I actually try to make 'music' every so once in awhile but i have alot more fun just making noise! I've gotten the "you only make noise because you can;t play music or have any musical talent " and well that's basically true but i don;t care! ha!ha! I love making noise, trying new sounds/ideas! Thanks and keep at it! :)

[@bizchazlien]

+Sodomatic Slaughterer ???

[@redbully7146]

What is noise to a deaf audience??yow..

[@gregdahlen4375]

to me noise rock doesn't seem like a depiction of doom, it just seems like a creative desire for something new

[@narwhalstastelikebacon6125]

As a noise band ourselves, we felt like this was an excellent documentary! Nice work!!!

[@buckocrooks]

I sampled an mp3 rip of this video in 2011 when I was in the shower with my laptop.

[@allenschmitz9644]

Ihave to admit Boy dirt car back in 1986 was a big influence on me..having done Noise from 86-92 then neo folk post industrial noise from 05'-10'...im now to old for that noise..love all the people I have worked with and known...just set me out on a street corner and let me jam busker music in my old age...yours truly Witt.....

[@NoSuchThing99]

Punk rock used to be a kick against rules and control and then the music it's self had so many rules, so noise had to take over for punk

[@foljs5858]

+NoSuchThing99 Only nobody (well, some old aunt here and there might) is shocked or cares that much about music anymore -- so noise ends up like a hobby like all the others, without any wider cultural impact.

[@Nosferdamus]

there are too many causes nowadays, here's a cause it's called "let's not give a fuck about what each other are doing so much our heads are up each other's asses." it's pretty simple to follow, you don't give a shit about what your neighbours say or do if it doesn't affect you in any way, like what religion they practice or if they fuck each other while banging cymbals and reciting poetry at 7 in the morning. who gives a fuck.

[@sethwinkleman2349]

There's pop-punk, but there's no pop-noise.

[@tristan16291]

@@sethwinkleman2349 there actually is lol en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_pop Noise Pop can be pretty good sometimes, but pop punk is just so fucking awful

[@TheStellarMaster]

@Don Kapsalon True

[@zodiac-thriller]

what i like about this doc is that its pretty much all music with a little talking here and there

[@Kyle-sq7up]

@27:29 "i think about the idea of in 15 years looking back and observing where i am... what let to this apocalypse or big world change... to express that emotion in pop music doesnt work anymore. people need something directly tackling that issue." - I am watching this documentary in 2023 for the first time. It was made 15 years ago.

[@GamerLetsPlayer]

I LOVE how everyone of them is so individual. They all make different styles of music and they have "crazy" hairstyles:D

[@hrnekbezucha]

Just love how the artists can be split into two categories. Ones who make feedback loops and more random distortions etc and use it as a template and scream and shout and are aggresive and then there are those who make feedback loops, distortions etc and carefully sculpt the sound as it comes and goes. Ones who make it and the others who explore what's already done.

[@DieMasterMonkey]

+Hrnek Bezucha Interesting observations but far more than two kinds.

[@namebrandmason]

+Hrnek Bezucha With noise, I notice it's (very broadly) people who are really into avant-garde music, and people who arrived at a point where metal was insufficiently bleak and confrontational.

[@hrnekbezucha]

mason s. Every genre of music carries a message altogether with the way it's presented. I was surprised how easily you can _aquire_ a taste for certain genre. Each one is interesting and worth checking out.

[@DocPlants]

I played in a noise band a few times. We brought a dead raccoon once for the audience to enjoy. Perfect aesthetic for the music

[@cypresscempr3s399]

I like music without rules

[@normapadro9704]

I enjoyed this video very much. Two years ago I began to produce music. I didn't know anything about it. I just wanted to make music. Any kind of music. You guys inspire me so much. I didn't know how to play a guitar I just wanted to play it. I have always believed that music is for anyone that wants to play it in any way they want. I love any type of music. I really think this video is very motivational and very inspiring. I'm looking forward to watching other videos like yours. Videos like yours is what inspired me to create music. Thanks for sharing.

[@vasarian]

Great stuff! I grew up on PTV, NON, Premature Ejaculation and Nurse With Wound. Stephen Stapleton and Rozz Williams are two of my faves!

[@zacharybaranek9492]

thumb up simply for Rozz and CD's first album.

[@midnightrun5]

I keep coming back to this video and really feel this is an important documentary. It has changed my thinking and I feel I am becoming more open minded to other people and ideas because of it. At first I felt like it was too strange and different for me and anyone else for that matter. However after listening several times and taking a hard look at myself and why I was bothered by it in the first place, feel embarrassed at how quickly I dismissed this truly excellent documentary, the ideas that spring from it, and how you should try to think outside the box not be buried in it. thanks for posting!!!!!

[@faiAhmed94]

20:51 "if I was gonna hoped to inspire anybody just to be more take life in your own hands learn how to build something, learn how to do something for yourself"

[@nomex8461]

I used to do the same thing with the cassettes, but that was before high-speed dubbing. I figured out my recorder would geek out if I pressed the button down half way. I used the closest noise maker I had- my Atari 2600 with the Reset button held down halfway during a sound (which would hold the sound). I got into noise by watching Foley artists and seeing how sound engineers would collect sounds for movies like Star Wars.

[@michaelmccoll9378]

Abstract poetry comes to mind when listening to this free sound, l found this to be uplifting and I'll to do some experimenting in the near future.

[@mattbutchercreativity4213]

When I was a kid in primary school me and some other kids got to play with a reel to reel tape player during the morning break. I think that's when I started to like noise music which is why I can relate to the cartoons guy.

[@X1L3]

"do whatever you want to do".... Fucking love this. Stark, eloquent, forceful, mesmerising. The beauty of noise being that you can do whatever you want with it to portray a scene or message. Or just because. You can lose yourself in it.

[@bizchazlien]

+manufacturedZ3R0 Exactly! :)

[@jonridley]

We do children's parties.... funerals etc :-)

[@SubPablum]

People who think there are rules to music (or even should be) should be laughed at and pitied. Make your rules, we shall break them and about it there is nothing you can do. I'm not into this music to much but more power to ya! It looks fun.

[@Psyxic_Crimes]

Agreed. It is a kind of Music, all the way, because music is Human Expression. Is it good music? Well, thats another question.

[@jeffsmart7552]

Don't fell like a rebel dude. your not breaking any rules. Its just noise and that's O.K.

[@barlobarlo303]

RULE #1: There are no rules - now break it.

[@kennethparker336]

Guys I pooped

[@roy_for_real2674]

would you say some words are music by themselves? would you say plastic is music by itself? I think defining music is actually pretty easy: every vibration in the air including pauses can be called music

[@windowpeeper]

Thanks for this, I love harsh noise, I listen to it since I was a kid to not hear my parents arguing now I just like it when I'm in a bad mood

[@ChrissyboyH44]

This stuff personally reminds me of ''Power Electronics'' music. People into Whitehouse (William Bennett & Philip Best) who coined the genre would probably be very much into this. Very industrial noise with shouted vocals, just like the music in this video.

[@ghoul2164]

Power electronics is in alot of cases a derivative genre of harsh noise. I"d say White house has a lot of harsh noise music.

[@mothrajenkins3874]

@@ghoul2164 But Power Electronics came first... Harsh Noise is more like the stuff coming out of Japan in the late 80’s and 90’s. Hijokaidan, Masonna, Hanatarash etc. It’s a lot different than most PE or your typical Whitehouse or Ramleh record

[@phi_the_whingy]

45:23 Possibly the single most emotionally intense performance I have ever seen.

[@droogiesouls8635]

Cheap Prurient knock off

[@FelixvonMontfort]

This inspired me to make noise.

[@ChrissyboyH44]

So who's watching this during lockdown?

[@midnightrun5]

I feel some of these people were born in a factory or something or maybe they were lulled to sleep as a baby on top of a washing machine. don't get me wrong, I think this is great, but one does wonder.

[@Stelcoboy]

"I mean I'm pretty sure long ago a CAVEMAN somewhere found a cave and got lit and started shouting crazy things and banging rocks on cave walls and other CAVEPEOPLE started gathering and watching them do crazy things for several hours, cuz they literally had nothing better to do and that inspired other CAVEPEOPLE to do the same thing only with elaborate hats, and necklaces made outta bones with even more yelling and banging which in turn inspired other people to copy what they did... Til someone invented writing and wrote it down, which of-course got misinterpreted then burned and re-imagined and mutated continuously for thousands of years til people were killing eachother becuz their screaming and yelling into the cosmic void was different from someone else's screaming into the cosmic void." -frankjavcee, 2015

[@itowedin]

My jaw dropped in the opening when they scan the South Waterfront of Portland. I work in several of those high rise condos and the last 4 weeks I've been immersing myself in noise to escape the psychological drudgery of my responsibilities there. I'm new to it so I'm still getting my head around the more well known artists. Tim Hecker, Merzbow, Haxan Cloak, Hair Police, Inade, etc. I wonder how many noise artists are still in Portland.

[@mylungpuppy]

Long live Noise. I'm glad to see that this is going on in Portland.

[@magnuswestergaardjespersen1494]

Thank you so much for uploading this. Have been trying to find it for ages.

[@thesensiblesocialist]

I like the 'cosmic' approach to making noise music that Pulse Emitter and God have and the 'feedback and decay' approach that the guys in Yellow Swans have too.

[@clothbirds9]

Cool documentary, i'm just disappointed it was only noise musicians from Portland

[@JuanRodriguez-tg7cu]

What I like about noise is the fact that there are no "heroes" you can do it if you are really interested in experimenting...

[@robertsyrett1992]

I wonder if all the people in this documentary have eurorack modular synthesizers now.

[@reptilespantoso]

Reversed Landfill :-)

[@retrigger_]

maybe they are buiding and selling them?

[@ChadKingOfficial]

Cosmic is such an excellent word to describe the first guy's music.

[@paragraphs7235]

this documentary single handedly got me into noise. so thanks for that.

[@xBLADEGOnoise]

best documentary about local noise scene. great thnx for upload!

[@LongformJaunt]

Thanks 4 uploading this. Was perfect viewing for DXM trip. I wish I could afford some of the toys they have

[@pyrox2518]

I remember falling asleep to this docu once and i later woke up with some serious side effects lol

[@danielw.2349]

yellow swans arguing over how their set up works is hilarious

[@NoiseorganMusic]

Thanks for sharing our passion

[@cmasseylynch]

We like this film . Good to see these people talk about their stuff.Sorry i'm droning on .x

[@hamupinhere]

If I was a noise artist I don't know how I could take any of that shit seriously. What I'd probably end up doing is like set up some really annoying frequency on my synthesizer and then when one of my neighbors comes over to complain I would answer the door in a space suit and tell them I'm busy in like a real monotone voice.

[@PseudoPseudoDionysius]

Hambone Jones Most “noise scenes” are full of people like this, really. I don’t have as much of a problem with the people in this doc as most here seem to, but this Portland crowd to seem like a bunch of dry shites.

[@29jews]

I don't understand why people hate on this style of music. The 4 chord wonder bands are still music, the demonic screams of a satanic death core band is still music, and let's not forget the robotic sound of the auto tuned idols who have a team of 8 writers/producers cranking out there next hit. Is the noise artist just a scapegoat because he is doing something different and artistic?

[@cloud-w2v]

Well Cuz you actually need sense for all of those. Here it's a improvisation of endless sounds. ... But I like it.

[@BeckMCS9876]

Was actually gonna up this myself, thanks for upping.

[@spacealienjesus709]

To me, with the state of music today and how humanity is decaying... is to make music that taps into wave forms in the mind that other music can not reach.

[@theladywelllout7011]

That instrument at 15:54 is nuts!

[@smallman9787]

When I make noise, I basically like to put myself in an environment. I want specific things to be there and for there to be some kind of repetition to really ingrain it, because usually I can't get the right sounds for and accelerated track.

[@vaspers]

Great documentary on noise music practitioners. We've heard a lot of abrasive sonics. What I'm looking for now is more gentle noise, like what Lucky Dragons and The Kick Mes make. It's hard to make soft noise, hard to find the right instruments and effects.

[@klownck]

amazing, thanks for putting this up. brilliant to see.

[@lolliwag]

I would actually buy a record of Yellow Swans...they have a solid future in this Noise Game, he-he-he.... but seriously, they do

[@ghoul2164]

They do sell quite alot of records for a noise band.

[@AMOKIAN]

Il Coral ....Los Angeles we miss you guys, Stane & Christie had a great noise venue in a cement building.

[@arcinterrupter]

I would love to see a new doc and find out where all these people are now with the genre.

[@earinsound]

Probably DJing techno music on Ibiza or straight jobs working for their CEO dads

[@ghoul2164]

@@earinsound Ibiza? They woud be famous.

[@cyrusbudatfletchergateart3569]

beautiful noise......simply enjoyable!

[@POLSET2]

I just love the music at the end of the film. The Best of all sound in this movie! More than just noise. It's dark,mechanic,but..MUSIC

[@DeefexNYC]

I really admire how many ppl follow this genre. I'm all for healthy means of releasing angst or whatever one might be dealing with. Or just making music. It's pretty safe to say that if they all continued making noise, they've moved onto modular systems.

[@MuscalityInObscurity]

Intriguing stuff! Although a rock hurdling through space isn't really an adequate definition.

[@SyncopatedProgress]

So sad to see (some) people in this video talk about how this music has special meaning or power or is better in some way. You dig what you dig. I happen to find this interesting, enjoyable and beautiful but why should that mean that it's better than something I might find uneventful, boring and ugly? Stop trying to make music esoteric and full of prestige. It's bloody music. Just that.

[@freudianslip4588]

it does. Noise is noise. Not music.

[@LauraSquirrel]

Yeah. Too many geeky fucks in the Noise scene. I just enjoy weird and trippy sounds. That's it.

[@thaincrediblemaier]

I think it's an attempt of some sort of a justification why these people create a music that isn't even considered music in the traditional sense or isn't following certain standards of what people outside this scene mindset consider as beautiful. It's a justification and the attempt of explaining the unexplainable. Compareable with all the weird arty farty manifestos by the early industrial music scene. You have to give a good (sounding) explanation for pushing boundaries.

[@ravplayz8966]

hail to NxFxE

[@alphalostcontrol]

It pushes boundaries, thats why noise is so good, not wanting to be exactly "listenable", but more experimental

[@extersquirrel]

No woman no cry

[@ballerinainbloodharshnoise1539]

Can you please post the jam Smegma does in the special features? It’s amazing!

[@slugcereal8647]

im so high bruh what am i doin here

[@felixnilsson2440]

This shit gave me tinnitus! I blame you KZbin algorithm!

[@nipulkradmsinatagras8293]

Such a compelling documentary.

[@OneWordWesley]

This was really cool, it got me in the headspace to write my show. Noise is very under appreciated

[@positronikiss]

DR. ID is HOPE for sure. Amazing fellow. Everyone that appeared in this film seems rad as fk. Congrats and enjoy.

[@f.botello]

here for todd at 1:05 ❤

[@astronomerblankman]

For me this all boils down to the guy in the wizard hat 34 minutes in.

[@hansdado]

damn i love watching the clip of yellow swans arguing haha

[@filltherobot8822]

Really like the movie, I have the cover, my disk never made it back from someone I let borrow??? Thanks for posting it.

[@lolliwag]

I wanna move to Portland now...that part is cool when they talk about the scene and stuff

[@alexisarrizon6083]

Portland is gay. I live there.

[@howardphillips8322]

lolliwag Don't be that guy.

[@brianobush]

+lolliwag Not really that cool, please don't come. Please?

[@AudioPervert1]

8 .. 9 years later, noise, glitch and its connected genres are still raising their voices and sounds .. the other side of music. All that cannot be expressed nor handled by mass media and the confirmity sheeps of the industry ...

[@Abhothra]

I love the fact that the artist interviewed sound kind of weird after the cavalcade of noise that blasted you before.

[@newsungsails3651]

This was certainly a fruitful phase of my life. I don't quite hear the magic I used to except in the more tightly composed noise-scapes. Albums like "Virgins" by Tim Hecker fulfilled what I was looking for and could never find. Noise music was fun and insightful though. Good way to train the ear on unsettling sounds.

[@lolliwag]

the guy at 45:26 should just start an industrial thrash grindcore band, LMFAO

[@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245]

Noise is the future of heavy music

[@zakur0hako]

Totally enjoyed this doc.

[@antonyrobinson9973]

At the 6.15 point im loving the hammer and anvil modulation, if only i had a beard to stroke.

[@inhumanundead]

Thanks for the up m8.

[@frididjurhuus]

Noise Helviti - Coffee He recorded it, then warped the sound into what you hear now. His album, Distortion Worship is an experimental guitar improvisation with a microphone against the amp.

[@twenger1]

honey I'm sure your music will take off soon

[@FelixvonMontfort]

Thanks for this one, youtube

[@daniellewis409]

the people who enjoy noise also do noise themselves, how it usually goes. chicago has had some epic moments

[@Abhothra]

On a more serious note : Do you "guys" think Noise is to music, what Abstract was to art ?!

[@CIRCADES]

I believe that noise in music is another instrument of sound, like in art it could be spraying all types of paint on to a canvas. Abstract art's parallel in music is abstract music, which can literally be anything.

[@oo0O08]

Abhothra Noise is a particular kind of abstract art, its not analogous to the whole movement. You could say its like what Jackson Pollock was to art.

[@ResilientME]

By its nature all music is abstract art. Hard to see the equivalent of noise in visual art.. I've been trying to create it but my art is still too human.

[@octavemagescas3192]

16:40 what's the name of this instrument again ?

[@MoodTide]

+Octave Magescas An early Sidrassi Organ built by Peter Blasser (aka ciat-lonbarde)

[@Charles3x7]

Fancy seeing you here.

[@RyanHarris77]

I thought this was a silent film until I realized I forgot to turn off noise reduction.

[@gaijingabber1056]

the opening is portland oregons burnside bridge right?

[@nelsone9520]

Please enable English subtitles. I want to do the Spanish translation.

[@lolliwag]

the guy at 57:48 can actually end the world...this is the shit we should play when the zombies come and take everything, lol....uber-industrial yo!!

[@edwardbliss8931]

I prefer this over chart-friendly pop. Mainstream pop is cliche, a parody, and goes through endless production. Noise is spontaneous, organic, and DIY. I'm not a diehard fan, but because it doesn't go through the corporate machine, I appreciate the spirit it represents.

[@richg16]

I tip my fedora to you too, sir

[@edwardmorris3610]

Damn hipsters are gettiin edgier

[@ericbush3399]

Edward Bliss Is noise considered the same as shoegazing?

[@modestrocker1]

Edward Morris everyone is somebody elses hipster. just think... out there.... somewhere ..... maybe even 3 feet away from you now.... someone under their breath has just called you a hipster .... a word that means nothing but somehow is insulting ........ like dubstep...... just to feel better about themselves. so good to know you feel so shitty about yourself you call other people hipsters. poor you.

[@modestrocker1]

Eric Bush no totally different music, listen to mogwai and then listen to throbbing gristle .... though sometimes athetics blend since both come from sound creation rather than traditional melody or pop structures.

[@syachipeanut]

Honestly nice documentary, its quite laid-back and just a chill watch.

[@SlyHikari03]

Yup. Just cool people doing cool things

[@frididjurhuus]

As expensive as you want it to be, because this music can be done with anything, because everything is an instrument. A friend of mine. who is the sole member of the project Noise Helviti has made a song with coffee beans.

[@mattsoldy2099]

i actually like it

[@ouou456]

My headphones are flapping, I think they like it!

[@freekingsport]

The Smegma part is fucking sweet. LEGENDS!

[@Mikethh]

Oscillating Innards though fuckk. Got stuck on him and Yellow Swans for the past couple years thanks to this