Straining the System: Noise as Practice

Dror Feiler, Eiliyas, and Leslie García (Microhm) in conversation with Lottie Sebes

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Closing a day of talks and discussions around CTM’s dissonate < > resonate theme, this panel brings together three artists who engage noise’s aesthetics and communities in their roles as practitioners, researchers, organisers, and activists. 
In a moment that demands constant output while the air thickens with collapse, noise is action without product. Both excess and absence, it resists comfort, niceness, and control. Noise offers a space for the extreme, for bodies and systems to strain. It confronts overwhelm by pushing further in—towards saturation, the allure of annihilation and the terror of the sublime. Noise is foreground music.

In conversation with Lottie Sebes, Dror Feiler, Leslie García, and Eiliyas will look at noise-making as a process of building and breaking systems – technical, social, political, aesthetic. Exploring the multiple layers, resonances, and dissonances between the positionalities and practices of the artists, this panel aims to open up discussion on how noise reflects and feedbacks into ways of thinking about the volatility of all systems.

How can noise help to question norms of mastery in technological and musical practice, connecting otherwise divergent experiences? When do noise aesthetics begin to operate homogeneously within a closed and self-referential scene, rather than as a site of rupture? Why do other musics seem to be increasingly breaking into noise aesthetics and does noise have the potential to continue resisting commercialisation?

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