Queer Noise

Across Scholarship what are the 7 key ideas about noise?

1. Negative

2. Ubiquitous

3. Historically contigent

4. Failing

5. Non-Normative

6. Political

7. Joyful

NOTE: does queerness cross over with any/all of these?

Who talks about noise being Negative, when and what do they say?

Paul Hegarty 2007

Noise is negative and unwanted - it is therefore defined by what it is not, structuring its opposite

Who talks about noise being Ubiquitous, when and what do they say?

Marie Thompson 2017

Noise exists everywhere, we just try to minimise it. “With no noise, there is no transmitted signal” (e.g Anechoic chamber of 4’33)

Who talks about noise being Historically Contingent, when and what do they say?

Hegarty 2007

“what is judged noise at one point in music or meaning in another”

e.g Tristan chord, Rite of Spring

Who talks about noise being Failing, when and what do they say?

Hegarty 2007

If noise becomes music it is failing at its purpose of being noise. Identifying something as noise can actually stop it being noise

Who talks about noise being non-normative, when and what do they say?

Paul Kohl 2008

“a rupture or resistance toward the dominant ideals of music” and society at large

Who talks about noise being Political, when and what do they say?

Novak 2015

Noise breaks from Status Quo of people living outside social norms

Who talks about noise being Joyful, when and what do they say?

Thompson - 2017

Noise moves beyond ‘aesthetic moralism’ (tethering noise to unwantedness/badness) to become a source of aesthetic reinvigoration

What did Maries Thompson say about the difficulties of noise music and when?

2012

“too far towards music, and noise music gets lost at sea… Too far towards music and it becomes grounded on shore”

What does Niki Sullivan say about Queerness and when?

2003

“trying to define queerness is a decidedly unqueer thing to do”

queerness is mobile and changing

How does Freya Jarman-Ivens like to consider queerness? When?

2011

Sees Queerness as more of a practice and a process than a noun for homosexuality.

The verb ’to queer’ allows for this “negotiation and construction”

This follows Sullivan’s point about queerness being changing and mobile

What does Nikki Sullivan say about Heteronormativity, when?

2003

“Heteronormativity does not exist as a discrete and easily identifiable body of thought, of rules and regulations, but rather, informs … all kinds of practices, institutions, conceptual systems, and social structures”

Heteronormativity seeks to make the queer subject abnormal

What does Robinson say about homonormativity and when?

2016

“reinforces heteronormative institutions” - leads onto assimilation

What does Munoz say about homonormativity and assimilation and when?

1999

“presents a sanitised and desexualised queer subject for mass consumption” - homonormativity seeks to assimilate queer subjects

Who talks about the quer art of failure, what is it and when?

Halberstam 2011

Idea of queerness being a failing against heteronormative societies. Once queer subject accept their inevitable failure against the status quo, they are free to be in a new world

Who talks about Queer Time, when, what do they say?

Halberstam 2005

“Queer uses o time and space develop … in oposition to the institutions of family, heterosexuality, and reproduction”

Not following same life trajectories as heterosexual counterparts - different micro and macro time spans

What does Drew Daniel say bout the queerness of sound and when?

2011 Sound invades the body and “queers the self/world boundary, all day, every day”

Give an example of Queerness of sound

Judy Dunaway - Two Dildos on a balloon, the instrument being the dildo and the balloon being the resonator

What do Sundell and Berglund say about Queer Noise Theory, when?

2020

“queerness is experienced sonically” and thhinking about it this way allows us to consider how queer people are silenced and how their very existence is deemed as noisy

Queerness is inherently noisy is a heterosexual paradigm

What do Sundell and Berglund say about signal and when?

2020

They wish to “revalue what is currently percieve as signal (straight) and noise (queer)”

What is Dream Crusher’s real name?

How do they describe their work?

What is one of their song? Explain it

What does it reflect?

Luwayne Glass - queer non-binary artists

Nihilist Queer Revolt Musik

Fever - stretched melodic conte,t distorted, vocal layersm occasionally audible lyrics

Non-normative queer identity. Dreamcrusher didn’t know their way around a studio at first so does it reflect radical freedom and chaos of queerness

Who is Straight Panic, What was their upbringing like?

What genre are they?

What is Kill a Breeder for Christ about?

Thomas Boettner - grew up in republican vaguly christian household, forced into conversion therapy at 16

HNW

Inverting heteronomativity as the paradigm, as is homosexuality and queerness was the norm. Co-opting homophobic rhetoric and inverting it in a HNW soundscape