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INTRODUCTION: ANTI-MUSIC

New No York

Bring the noise! - Public Enemy

We have often been told that what we make is not music and generally we have no argument with that. If music is only sound constructed within that this day survive as the common notion of musicality, then, no, we don't make music. This is not to say that we reject all sound-constructions developed within 'music' (in its narrowest sense) — there are certainly ideas developed within this tradition that we use — but we do believe that the traditional concept of music is too impoverished to encompass the sound worlds we wish to create. While many musicians have already come to reject the limitations of western music, expanding their vocabulary by introducing the rules and relations of eastern musics, we are with those artists that desire the freedom to reject all rules/relations from everywhere. Taking our cue from Herbert Brun we call this Anti-music. As with Brun's concept of anti-communication the 'anti' of anti-music is "used here as in antipodes, antiphony, antithesis, not meaning 'hostile' or 'against' but rather 'juxtaposed' or 'from the other side'."

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	INTRODUCTION: ANTI-MUSIC New No York

	Bring the noise! - Public Enemy

	We have often been told that what we make is not music and generally we have no argument with that. If music is only sound constructed within that this day survive as the common notion of musicality, then, no, we don't make music. This is not to say that we reject all sound-constructions developed within 'music' (in its narrowest sense) — there are certainly ideas developed within this tradition that we use — but we do believe that the traditional concept of music is too impoverished to encompass the sound worlds we wish to create. While many musicians have already come to reject the limitations of western music, expanding their vocabulary by introducing the rules and relations of eastern musics, we are with those artists that desire the freedom to reject all rules/relations from everywhere. Taking our cue from Herbert Brun we call this Anti-music. As with Brun's concept of anti-communication the 'anti' of anti-music is "used here as in antipodes, antiphony, antithesis, not meaning 'hostile' or 'against' but rather 'juxtaposed' or 'from the other side'."
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