ABSTRACT
Harsh noise wall is a current attempt to complete a history of moves within noise music, or noise-as-music. It creates a massive sonic focus through the use of a broad range of frequencies and a thick loam of sonic layers, and is oppressively thick in sound. It tries to get out from the idea of freeing sound so we can be more creative, and instead seeks to close down options. This type of music does not come from nowhere, despite its interest in absence, and more important than its relation to any history of avant-garde music is its relation to moments in experimental art that have sought to bring either an art, or all art, to its endpoint. Numerous works by Marcel Duchamp follow in the throw of dice that cannot annul chance, or be it, and attempt to occupy the space of the work that cannot be, yet tries to exist and contain/overcome the Hegelianism of modern art’s progress.
