SI website updates / Essays on noise!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Intent to start putting some activity into website itself. Combining noise and recommended books will be one of the "formats".  Old, new, whatever.

https://special-interests.net/main/extreme-cold/

[Neanderthal]

Great thing to wake up to and have morning coffee with, unexpected and totally fascinating. Cheers

[-NRRRRK-]

Played that Lasse Marhaug album just the other day (on yt). Never really got into his works, but this one clicked. Great material.

Also, the recommendation of books, movies etc. that have at first glance no connection to noise or pe but somehow do is very welcome.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Longer piece of something I have talked also formerly, but perhaps not in such detail:

https://special-interests.net/main/ruralist-industrial/

[Theodore]

Longer piece of something I have talked also formerly, but perhaps not in such detail:

https://special-interests.net/main/ruralist-industrial/

Excellent article ! - Nuori Veri totally deserves all the attention. BTW i dont understand a word of what he says but his vocals make strong impression. And although i believe that the tracks with vocals are the best, i appreciate the 'careful' use of them. - Taking the chance to recommend these tapes : https://brownhillmafia.bandcamp.com/album/cassette-series . I read in your shop is connected project / collab [?] . Not exactly like Nuori Veri, -i wouldnt call it industrial, and there is even less track-orientation- but the core elements are here too, even more 'raw' , as they are, and most of all : the ruralist spirit. I am not sure what takes to be called radioplay but these tapes create the picture and 'telling' the story, just with sound.

Thanks for the doc tips. I ll watch.

[HateSermon]

Great essay. As someone who has spent years living and working on a farm in the middle of nowhere, a lot of this is familiar. It is often romanticized by urban folks and we would have many visitors from the nearest city show up to get their fill of good ol’ down-on-the-farm living. But the reality is that it is brutal, but at the same time rewarding. I saw life and death everyday, whether its the season’s crops or the animals we had to slaughter. Nights of nothing happening, no internet, no tv, just discussion with coworkers and many beers. Your connection with the Earth changes as you watch the seasons turn. It’s beautiful and depressing at the same time.
I look back on those years fondly. I wish I was into making noise at the time. Some of those machines were so wretched and terrifying. Large rusted equipment that made some of the most insane mechanical noises… to go back in time and sample some of that would be a dream!