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Originally Posted by Janszoon
Do you ever enjoy sound simply on its own terms? I mean like the sound of crashing waves or a refrigerator humming or traffic in the rain or footsteps in a high-ceilinged space. I'd imagine to some degree or another you do. I really do. I love the texture of sound and I tend to appreciate experimental sound stuff in the same way that I enjoy sitting in a space with a lot of sonic texture, like a train station. That's really all there is to it, if it washes over me and takes me somewhere mentally, then I enjoy it. If it doesn't, I don't.
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Oh absolutely. After all, I really dug the Dead Voices on Air and Gnaw Their Tongues albums. I just don't enjoy harsh, screechy, abrasive noise. To me, that's like someone saying "I'm going to come into your room and drill holes in the wall for an hour. I'm sure you'll enjoy that and want me to come back again." Or listening to, as I think Batty mentioned, nails on a blackboard. I just would not listen to that of choice, and that's what Merzbow, at least that album, brought to mind.
Of course I love birdsong, whalesong, the sound of rain, even humming can be relaxing. But I don't like loud, discordant, static-ish noise.