Noise Boris Otterdam
OTTERDAM INFLUENCES PART 5: NOTHING HAPPENS IN THE ABSENCE OF NOISE

PART 5: NOTHING HAPPENS IN THE ABSENCE OF NOISE

• Noise is pretty much where I went from wanting to make music with others to just wanting to make it all the time - regardless of whether anyone else was interested in doing so or not.
  In the beginning, discovering some aspects of noise and the home recording abstractions and field recordings aspect. It reminded me of tape recording my and friends voices at home on my Mum's stereo when I was a kid. There was an immediate click with me and the idea of noise as a DIY music movement, because I knew ho easy it would be to make it with little to no equipment.
  I'd only been in one band at the time I first heard noise. Bu the frustration of not getting my own ideas out was already something I as familiar with. Noise pretty much prepared me for a life of learning to always have the knowledge to make my own music for me - without anyone else needing to show up, be interested or show me how to do anything.
  It was a guy I met while at Art School in 1998 who firt showed me Einsturzende Neubauten and that's where it started. The industrial aspect of machines running and then angry German voices barking into a dIstorted microphone before a metal drumkit being pounded away as an intro...was also a major appeal to someone already "well versed" in industrial for the past few years.
  
  • Mike Patton's "Adult Theme For Voice" I heard a few years earlier through a friend who was as much a Faith No More fan as I was. Technically, I guess it was the first "noise" record I heard. I was a big fan of it at the time. Especially (again) the cheap, home recorded aspect of it.
  • After being introduced to Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle and Coil. I sought out as much noise as I could. Most of which was via people I met through the Perth noise scene. Some of these like Can, Neu and Thou Gideon I got into through them and some I got into later through a work colleague I met in 2005. Power Electronics and the more extreme noise came around that time. Except for Merzbow, who I was lucky enough to not only see perform but play alongside at a festival in 1999.

MIKE PATTON - RED MOUTH, BLACK ORGASM
EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - STEH AUF BERLIN
THROBBING GRISTLE - MAGGOT DEATH
NON - KINGDOM COME
SPK - MACHT SCHRECKEN
THUG - THUG
THE HATERS - PULSATION OF EXPLOSION
WHITEHOUSE - JUST LIKE A CUNT
CAN - MUSHROOM
NEU -NEGATIVLAND
NEGATIVLAND - THE GREATEST TASTE AROUND
MERZBOW - MINUS ZERO (RED MAGNESIA PINK)
MASONNA - TRACK 1 OF HYPER CHAOTIC
LUX MAMMOTH - IN HIS OWN BLOOD
THE HIGH IMPEDANCE - BALCONY VIEWS
THOU GIDEON - THE MAGIC THEATRE
MONSTERMONSTERMONSTER - DEVIOUS
GOMST - ROTATION ANXIETY
NIC ENDO - WHITE HEAT
PURE - SPEED IS MY DOPE
NOMEX - NO-STEP 2000
CRIPPLING SELF DOUBT - THE END OF MY ROPE (EDIT)
PRISON RAPE SCENES - CONTINUOUS MORPHINE PUMP
MARILYN MANSON - REVELATION 9
SUICIDE - JOHNNY
THE BOREDOMS - TURNTABLE BOREDOM