Avant-garde refers to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.
Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm. The notion of the existence of the avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of modernism, as distinct from postmodernism. Many artists have aligned themselves with the avant-garde movement and still continue to do so, tracing a history from
Dada through the
Situationists to postmodern artists such as the
Language poets around
1981.[2]
The term also refers to the promotion of radical social reforms. It was this meaning that was evoked by the
Saint Simonian Olinde Rodrigues in his essay, "L'artiste, le savant et l'industriel", ("
The artist, the scientist and the industrialist", 1825) which contains the first recorded use of "avant-garde" in its now-customary sense: there,
Rodrigues calls on artists to "serve as [the people's] avant-garde", insisting that "the power of the arts is indeed the most immediate and fastest way" to social, political, and economic reform.[3] Over time, avant-garde became associated with movements concerned
with "art for art's sake", focusing primarily on expanding the frontiers of aesthetic experience, rather than with wider social reform.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant_garde
Noise music is a category consisting of multiple discrete genres of music that have employed noise as a musical resource.
It includes a wide range of musical styles, and sound based creative practices, that feature noise as a primary aspect. It can feature acoustically or electronically generated noise, and both traditional and unconventional musical instruments. It may incorporate live machine sounds, non-musical vocal techniques, physically manipulated audio media, processed sound recordings, field recordings, computer generated noise, stochastic processes and other randomly produced electronic signals such as distortion, feedback, static, hiss and hum. There may also be emphasis on high volume levels and lengthy, continuous pieces. More generally noise music may contain aspects such as improvisation, extended technique, cacophony and indeterminacy, and in many instances conventional use of melody, harmony, rhythm and pulse is often dispensed with.[2][
3][4][5]
The Futurist art movement was important for the development of the noise aesthetic, as was the Dada art movement (a prime example being the Antisymphony concert performed on April 30,
1919 in
Berlin),[
6][7] and later the
Surrealist and Fluxus art movements, specifically the Fluxus artists
Joe Jones,
Yasunao Tone,
George Brecht,
Robert Watts,
Wolf Vostell,
Yoko Ono,
Nam June Paik,
Walter De Maria's
Ocean Music,
Milan Knížák's
Broken Music Composition, early
LaMonte Young and
Takehisa Kosugi.[8]
Contemporary noise music is often associated with extreme volume and distortion.[9] In the avant rock domain examples include
Jimi Hendrix's use of feedback,
Lou Reed's
Metal Machine Music and
Sonic Youth.[10] Other examples of music that contain noise-based features include works by
Iannis Xenakis,
Karlheinz Stockhausen,
Helmut Lachenmann,
Cornelius Cardew,
Theatre of Eternal Music,
Rhys Chatham,
Ryoji Ikeda,
Survival Research Laboratories,
Whitehouse,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Psychic TV,
Blackhouse,
Jean Tinguely's recordings of his sound sculpture (specifically Bascule
VII), the music of
Hermann Nitsch's Orgien Mysterien
Theater, and
La Monte Young's bowed gong works from the late
1960s.[11] Genres such as industrial, industrial techno, lo-fi music, black metal, sludge metal and glitch music employ noise-based materials.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_music
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