I wanna do my part to help promote all the amazing artists creating forms of noise art, so I decided to make this page to shout out various things I hear throughout the year. I'll be sure to update this list as often as I can whenever I hear something I think deserves special mention.
[will revisit soon for proper write up]
Hannah is a friend of mine, so I'm always ecstatic when I see her putting out yet another masterpiece under her "pinniped" alias. She's one of the greatest artists I've had the pleasure of working with on several occasions, and her ability to always leave such an impression on anything she touches, especially considering how fragile and minute her sound often is. This collaboration with snowhowling is truly something special, capturing such an elliptical scene that at least to my ears brings imagery of wooden bridges covered in snow overlooking an icy river that hasn't fully frozen yet but is congested with large blocks of ice, far off street lamps glowing faintly in the dead of night, and vague shapes of animals, be they seals or some other creatures, observing you from across the long valley. Absolutely blissful stuff, but with a very palimpsestuous impression of some underlying danger.
Thanks to Przemo from Gates of Hypnos for alerting me to this one. This is exactly my kind of wintery frigid noise wall. It feels like a bunch of horror VHS tape scenes of storms and rain beating on windows kept in a state of perpetual kinetic energy, stuttering on awkwardly sized CRT televisions. This record is a really agonizing listen, since the frequencies have a strange ability to cause synesthetic reactions in me and make me really feel freezing and stiff, and the tracks despite being pretty typical noise wall lengths all feel truly endless, in part due to the slowly recurrent howling winds throughout all seem to give the illusion of progress and dilate the space ever further. Really fantastic stuff, cannot wait to hear more from this project.
Really drowsy and creepy wall. Deep rumbles with nice crumbling edges to them, instead of the pure resonance some walls approach these textures with. There's a nice crumpling sound overlaying the whole thing, like vibrating tin foil over a speaker. It's really a shame this one is so short because I would happily listen to it for a full hour, if not more. The kind of wall that reminds me I need to start taking my record equipment outside and getting some fun textures from nature.