portland noise documentary premiere/dvd release

[err jordan]

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the date is set for July 13 8pm at the Clinton St Theater (2522 SE Clinton St).



tickets will be $6, and DVDs will be available for $10 at the screening. all artists in the project will be on the list, everyone else is strongly encouraged with love and appreciation to buy a ticket and a DVD at the screening.

afterwards we'll go to someplace to get trashed as usual, if anyone has any suggestions please pipe up.


Some say noise is the future of music... Others claim it is the end

PEOPLE WHO DO NOISE (82 min)
A stark portrayal of a musical underground at its most
genuine and vital, this is the PORTLAND NOISE documentary.
Featuring performance footage and interviews with:
Smegma
Daniel Menche
Pulse Emitter
Yellow Swans
Honed Bastion
Oscillating Innards
GOD
Kitty Midwife
Josh Hydeman
Soup Purse
Sisprum Vish
Argumentix
Redglaer
With Cano


PEOPLE WHO DO NOISE is a feature-length documentary video about the noise and experimental music community in Portland, Oregon. Extensive interviews and intimate performance footage provide an intense portrait of the characters, methods, and emotions that create this challenging, personal, and above all unique musical form. As often hailed as radical, visionary, and sublime as it is criticized as brutal, thoughtless, and abrasive, one thing is certain: the people and music of PEOPLE WHO DO NOISE are uncompromised.




DVD Includes:
•PEOPLE WHO DO NOISE feature documentary (82 minutes)
•Over an hour of special features: official trailer, additional footage, and
deleted scenes.




Letterbox 1.

85:1
Dual Layer
All Region Play
English
Not Rated
NTSC


available at filmbaby. com, and various distributors and stores TBA


for more info and trailer visit::
peoplewhodonoise. com
myspace. com/coldhandsvideo (we need friends!)

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from WWeek:

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] This locally produced documentary intersperses colorful footage of Old Town with interviews and performances by Portland's eclectic community of experimental artists. Some participants focus on barbaric sonic expression, while others craft cosmic aural treatises that could easily pose as art-house installations (if the volume were kept in check). Apocalypse and futurism are touched on repeatedly in interviews, which tend to be much more engaging than the accompanying performances. Most viewers will not be able to tell the difference between the grinding distorted feedback exploits from one performance to the next anyway. But as solo artist Sisprum Vish points out, ingesting noise music is the sonic equivalent of enjoying wasabi. This is stimulation and rebellion that rock music no longer offers. With two final juxtaposed images (I won’t give them away), director Adam Cornelius powerfully conveys the idea that noise music is a reflection of the chaos of nature, implying that gentler musical sounds are often shackled by convention and unnatural order. Soup Purse describes noise as "Blade Runner music.” It is the sound of the future. The future is now.

NATHAN CARSON

from Yahoo!:
People Who Do Noise is a film about the experimental music of Portland, Oregon. Extensive interviews and intimate performance footage provide an intense portrait of the motivations, emotions, and ideas that go into this uncompromising, sometimes brutal musical form. Unwavering in its focus, the film brings to light an art form unfathomable to many, with only the words of the musicians themselves providing any explanation for the pulsating sonic chaos they create.



The film takes a very personal approach, capturing the musicians working alone with no interference from a live audience. What often took place in crowded basements or dark smoky venues was stripped bare for the cameras, providing an unprecedented glimpse of the many different instruments and methods used.



Covering a wide range of artists and styles, the film features everything from the absurdist free-improvisations of genre-pioneers Smegma, to the harsh-noise assaults of Oscillating Innards and everything in between. Many of the artists in the film, such as Yellow Swans and Daniel Menche, have performed and sold records all over the world. In spite of such successes, noise music remains one of the least understood and most inaccessible of genres.



With an unflinching cinematic style, the film defies any trend-setting or commercial representation, opting instead for a stark portrayal of a musical underground at its most genuine and vital. For the subjects of the film, noise music is a way of life; a life in opposition to the tidy, orderly, and vacuous pop-culture experience.

[dave quam]

oh sweet ill ill be there

[err jordan]

say hi when you do, I'm still not sure who you are even though we live in the same town and you've bought stuff from me. There's this guy I see around town that I guess might be you but I'm probably wrong, were you at the rager at the White Fang house on saturday?

[dave quam]

oh no I wasn't there. And godamnit i missed this today. How was it? I was riding my bike on clinton street around 9pm tonight and realized I had missed it. Still wanna see that doc. Never met you before but i've seen you play a few shows. I think opening for smegme like 2 years ago at some shitty place. Will say hi nextime. I have met your cat 40 however

[err jordan]

ok so that dude's not you... the mystery deepens... there's 1000 copies pressed of the dvd so I think you should still be able to see it...

I think a lot of us who were in this expected to be embarrassed (all this was shot well over a year ago, haircuts + styles change you know), but it went pretty well given the circumstances. This movie is not a comprehensive intro to noise, and it’s target audience is not noise people really (although it may appeal to them). The theater was packed with people who mostly don’t go to noise shows watching a movie that focuses on personality + motivation, mostly in relation to playing noise sets in front of people. Some people might get bummed because there’s no dead bodies or tits on the cover and men like to talk about their feelings in the pacific northwest ans the director potentially owns no c10s. But it’s still pretty interesting.
The Smegma interviews are really insightful, and the Pulse Emitter interview is absolutely epic. Also you get some ringside at a swan fight!
I posted that last paragraph on another board first, sorry if that's totally lazy

[jkudler]

I think a lot of us who were in this expected to be embarrassed (all this was shot well over a year ago, haircuts + styles change you know)

Some people might get bummed because there’s no dead bodies or tits on the cover and men like to talk about their feelings in the pacific northwest ans the director potentially owns no c10s. But it’s still pretty interesting.

hahah great post!

yeah, actually. . . i sort of wish there was more stuff around that explained noise/experimental/whatnot music for the non-initiate. it seems like a lot of people are able to get into things and maybe even really curious once they understand that there is no "secret" or hidden motivation going on. so much of the mainstream journalism (even by music critics) is so lazy or poorly informed that it almost does a disservice. contrast with say your typical daily or weekly newspaper's visual art or film coverage, which is generally miles better. . .

-j.

[err jordan]

I've been told this is going to be available on Netflix soon