The Aesthetics of Noise

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2023.215454

Keywords:

Noise, Aesthetics, Rock, Eletronica

Abstract

In the essay “The Aesthetics of Noise”, Torben Sangild seeks to define noise and briefly outline its history in society. He classifies it into three categories: acoustic noise, communicative noise, and subjective noise. Sangild then goes on to explore noise in rock and electronic music and how the use of the guitar, samples, and glitches by bands such as Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Merzbow and Curd Duca defined the effect and aesthetic power that noise can convey. Sangild treats noise as an aesthetic phenomenon, an explosive feeling that can have a critical potential in a society immersed in rationality and individuality.

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Author Biographies

  • Torben Sangild, Sem Registro de Afiliação

    Torben Sangild é escritor freelancer e apresentador de rádio baseado em Copenhague, Dinamarca, que anteriormente atuava como acadêmico. Publicou um livro em dinamarquês sobre o ruído, bem como uma teoria estética chamada “Objective Sensibility”. Escreveu diversos artigos sobre arte, música, filosofia, ciência e psicologia e, atualmente, trabalha em um livro sobre emoções.

  • Juliana Frontin, Universidade de São Paulo

    Juliana Frontin explora o som em suas diversas dimensões e extensões no tempo/espaço. Seus trabalhos tratam da contenção do som e, ao mesmo tempo, dos seus transbordamentos, do volume no espaço e sua materialidade e possibilidades escultóricas e visuais. É artista e mestranda em poéticas visuais no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes Visuais da Escola de Comunicações e Artes da USP.

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KRISTEVA, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Nova Iorque: Columbia University Press, 1982.

NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Die Geburt der Tragödie. Berlim: Hofenberg, 2016.

SANGILD, Torben. Støjrock og støjens æstetik. [Não publicado]. 1996.

SANGILD, Torben. Støjens æstetik. Copenhagen: Multivers Aps forlag, 2003.

SERRES, Michel. Genèse. Paris: Grasset, 1982.

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Published

2023-12-08

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 49 (2023)

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Translations

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The Aesthetics of Noise. (2023). ARS, 21(49), 506-537. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2023.215454