{"product_id":"various-noise","title":"Various - Noise","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2CD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMassive, piercing, and raucous - deliberately raw and disorienting, \"NOISE\" features tracks by musicians from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan: Torturing Nurse, Wang Changcun, Mei Zhiyong, Ronez, Wang Fujui, Orgasm Denial, Li Jianhong, Xu Cheng, Zafka, and more...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally released in a small edition China-only 2CDR 15-track set (2012, Kwanyin Records), this new edition of \"NOISE\" incorporates seven additional sets of works; 22 tracks in total. Scattered throughout, they feel entirely natural - as if they had always belonged in their respective spots. With some tracks dating back as far as 2005, the selection process focused on the actions and temperaments embodied in the works - qualities consistent with the past, yet offering new possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese works were initially solicited via the internet: instant messaging, email, and gatherings in online noise groups, creating music with software or hardware, driven by a mindset that was at once curious and uncompromising. Most of these musicians lived in Beijing or Shanghai - China's two most pivotal yet disorienting cities. Like the alternation of day and night, before the noise erupted, they would share various musical resources, digesting them fully in a single afternoon and savouring the thrill of a shared conspiracy, before setting out to create the noise. That pure blend of black and white was a new city they built together via the internet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring that period, noise art united the fervour of youth, shattered the tracks of syntax, and briefly levelled identities and differences. It was a form of surrogate screaming - expressing satisfaction or discontent - that erupted anytime, anywhere. Noise at that time signified invention and transformation: dissolving the solid, coaxing unconventional sounds from conventional instruments, and making silent objects clamour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary listeners might not perceive the shifts in auditory impression wrought by the passage of time and the march of eras. Vocal techniques, tools, and people themselves evolve (or devolve); noise possesses its own aesthetic. Through vigorous action - choosing, transforming, and performing - a vast, fleeting phenomenon takes shape. It articulates attitudes, interprets the self, distils philosophy, elevates purpose, and confronts the void and its echoes head-on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2CD in an 8-panel glossy double-digipak, with liner notes on NOISE by Ban Yu.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cargo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64856562762105,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0051\/1380\/6921\/files\/Noise.jpg?v=1791811415","url":"https:\/\/worldofechomusic.com\/products\/various-noise","provider":"World Of Echo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}