Amplified free music vs unamplified free music
 

Russell notes that "[f]ree music which uses rock instrumentation and aesthetics [...] can harness a noise more purely random and less limited by subjective considerations than that of any but the most determined acoustic musicians"
 
among those "most determined": "the unamplified attack of the Borbetomagus reeds, Brötzmann, or many North African trumpet musics"
 
free music within the rock idiom: "Rudolph Grey [Borbetomagus guitarist], Donald Miller and hundreds of others doing the same thing on a subconscious level"

> from Bruce Russell's Left-Handed Blows: Writing on Sound 1993-2009 (2009)

> tagged with #investigate, #noise, #improvisation

> created Jan 13, 2025 at 12:47:27 PM


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