Cultural Noise: Noise as a Musical Metaphor for Contemporary Aesthetics in Popular Culture: Noise can be considered not only as a disturbing distortion but also as the maximum compression of information within a certain framework of space and time. Abstract: >>Noise can be considered not only as a disturbing distortion but also as the maximum compression of information within a certain framework of space and time. The question of how to "audio-picture" modern life's necessities of an industrialized environment seems to be a highly relevant topic for artistic articulations in the last hundred years. Since the Industrial Revolution these articulations had not been "up to date" until Noise emerged and made reproduction as its paradigmatic core (Walter Benjamin) understandable for an audiovisual context. Due to its repetition ad infinitum Noise constantly produces its own hermetical simulacrum and generates an overload information unit. As a (post-)modern phenomenon, Noise has become one of the most referred interdisciplinary discourses in many branches of Art and everyday life. Noise rejects the traditional influences of the spectacle, occupies the body via a set of techno-mediated waves as a field of battle/discourse, establishes sonic warfare against mediocre pop-practices, institutionalises its subjective politics and appears as an extremely lo-fi articulation. "Noise is with us all the time and it symbolizes a world that is forever expanding and accelerating. [...] Noise foreshadows and foretells. It alters." (Robert Worby).<< Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
