3/30/2023 0 Comments Dark noise rock![]() While Siri commands don’t work with the feature, you can set up an Accessibility shortcut for Background Sounds or use Control Center to quickly access it.Īpple has some experience with ambient sounds as it brought seven different options to HomePod in 2019 with white noise, stream, rain, ocean, night, forest, and fireplace. Instead of having its own app, the feature is tucked inside Accessibility settings for iPhone and iPad. Read along for how to use iPhone Background Sounds, what you get, what you don’t, how it works while listening to music, and more.īackgrounds Sounds comes with six options: balanced, bright, or dark noise, ocean, rain, and stream. Then someone plays a record of Allen Ginsberg reciting his poetry on top.One of the handy native features that arrived in iOS 15 is Background Sounds. But at their best, Sonic Youth were the aural equivalent of the “Teen Age Riot” video above: Like every great punk record in history played at once, as someone leans a guitar against an amp, letting it scream feedback before smashing it. From time to time, as in their cover of the Carpenters ’ “Superstar,” it happened within the same song. When applied to explorations into standard pop song construction, it created a shockingly new form of rock that could roar violently or chime beautifully. Their innovation was pairing this rethink of rock guitar with the powerhouse rhythm section of Kim Gordon on bass and drummer Bob Bert, replaced from 1985 onward by Steve Shelley. With their overamplified junk shop guitars strung with piano wire or whatever they could afford, tuned to anything but A440, banged with screwdrivers or hammers, guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo could raise some truly hideous tonalities. ![]() Without further adieu, Alternative Press presents its hand-picked selection of noise’s 15 brightest lights, from its beginnings to its present. ![]() And like punk and post-punk, it’s still thriving, even if it’s seemingly retreated underground, rebuilding its strength before assaulting the culture and our eardrums anew. Of course, noise had its crossover with the concurrently rising industrial scene, as well as post-punk’s most abrasive elements. Read more: 10 Joan Jett-inspired artists who are breaking boundaries just like her Blues” Lou Reed ’s 1975 Metal Machine Music, a two-record chronicle of what happens when you lean several guitars against as many amps, turn on different effects boxes, switch on a tape machine and walk out of the room for an hour the brutal guitar symphonies of Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham even the proto-ambient record The Sounds Of The Junk Yard, featuring such soothing toe-tappers as “Acetylene Torch.” and “Steel Saw Cutting.” This must have been a big hit on Einsturzende Neubauten ’s hi-fi at their rent parties. Of course, like any artform, noise has its roots or precedents: avant-garde composer John Cage’s symphonies for phonograph cartridges, pipe cleaners, toothpicks and suchlike the Velvet Underground at their most fuzzed-out and atonal, such as “Sister Ray'' and the majority of second LP, White Light/White Heat the entirety of Yoko Ono ’s career Detroit protopunk’s most free jazz-inspired, dissonant blasts, such as MC5 ’s “Black To Comm” or the Stooges ’ “L.A. Read more: Alice Cooper disagrees with Gene Simmons’ rock is dead claim-here’s why Whatever the case, this isn’t music as most would define it. You may create the most frightening racket ever or the most unusually melodious overtones. You may love rock ’n’ roll, or perhaps you took punk’s promise to “destroy rock ’n’ roll/tradition” at face value and aim to deliver. ![]() You may have no skill whatsoever or all the chops of the most studied jazzhead. Basically, you have no respect for the 12-note scale, melody, rhythm and all those other musical niceties. ![]() Maybe you bang some unusual percussion together as well-pots, pans, car mufflers, etc. Sonically, it’s what happens when you are unkind to an electric guitar at ear-splitting volume. ![]()
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