Noise Art Quotes

OPN is completely off the grid. Its like the slime underneath techno and other synth-oriented music.

Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.

I think there's something strangely musical about noise.

I saw Double Leopards play at my school and realized there were other ways to approach noisy music that weren't necessarily aggressive. That became a very important concept for me as a musician. I don't think I would have been that interested in creating and performing my own music if it wasn't for this group.

On 'Black Ben Carson,' I had strict no melody thing. I wanted straight, raw, rugged noise music.

I was doing the Klaus Schulze noise-kid thing before it became interesting to people.

That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise.

I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked.