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Article: Shock value: Damon Krukowski on Electronic Music. (Music).(An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music 1921-2001 and Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music, 1948-1980)(Sound Recording Review)
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- January 1, 2003
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An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music 1921-2001. Sub Rosa (SR 190). $18.
Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music, 1948-1980. Ellipsis Arts (CD 3670). $40.
THE TRADITIONAL SCENARIO might be described like this: People onstage make music, and, in response, people in the audience make noise.
And if the people onstage make noise?
Sonic Youth's contribution to the two-CD Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music 1921-2001, the first of eight planned releases on the theme, takes this situation to its logical conclusion: "Audience" is six minutes of applause taped at the end of a 1983 Sonic Youth performance in Berlin, subjected in the ...