I don't call what I do noise because I do not consider it noise. I think the term "noise" is being thrown around with far too much reckless abandon these days, as well as the term "Experimental".

My problem with the term "noise" is that is vague and negative. Yes I understand that all things in the world have positives and negatives, but I would rather my music stand for something positive and productive than something destructive. Some of you may be thinking that I'm some new age hippie, well if trying to improve the space we live in some way by making nice music makes me a hippie, then I guess I'm a hippie. Also, language is incredibly powerful. If you call it noise, you are basically devaluing what you are doing. /p>

I speak from veteran experience in the "noise" scene. In 1996 while living in Miami, I started playing with The Laundry Room Squelchers, one of the oldest, and longest running "noise" bands in the world. If anything truly is noise, it is LRS. I played with them off and on up until 2003. Sound is incredibly powerful, and I learned this very much with LRS. The things we evoked in people most often psychotic anger and depression or other times near riots. The sounds we made brought out forces in everybody were dark and scary. If you've ever been to Churchill's at 3am in little Haiti, you'll know exactly what I am talking about. Or if you've been to I.N.C. (the international noise conference) you may have seen acts that involve some things that could even scar somebody for life, some even involving extreme and horrifying acts of self mutilation. Eventually the shock value of this type of thing wears off, and you just end up with allot of very unhappy and disturbed people. What's good about that? In what way has this bettered anything at all?

Noise is also vague. When somebody says they are a noise band, it makes me think of when Bush says we've got to fight the war on Terror. Noise could be anything, it might even be something good. But as soon as you call it noise, it pretty much can't be any longer, because you already removed all the value from it with your language. You have devalued it, and so has everyone who has watched it, because to them it is just another meaningless wasted night of noise.

Obviously, if you've listened to my music you know that I don't play top 40, and some of it is even somewhat abrasive. My most abrasive album after I took on this philosophy was "cell phone tower" This was a conceptual piece intended on making a statement about electro-magnetic pollution, but not meaningless noise. Before that my two other somewhat abrasive releases. "Fireant" and "Lost" were created before I came to this conclusion of responsibility as an artist.

Most people's argument to me on this philosophy is that they claim that Art is merely a reflection of society. I agree with this, but I also think that society is a reflection of Art. Both are mirrors, they reflect one another. What happens when you point a mirror at another mirror? You have an endless hole of mirrors. You have to change the reflection on one end if you do not like what you see on the other. I know damn sure society isn't going to change, so I think my responsibility as an artist is to change what is being cast into the endless mirror from my end and inspire positive change in the other. Society inspires Art, and Art inspires Society. Look at any science fiction novel that was written in the late 1800s or early 1900s and you'll instantly see this is true. I do not think everything should be watered down easy listening gook, but I really think the meaning and intension behind a work of art should be carefully considered, as well as its affect upon its listers/viewers/participants.  

What's my problem with calling my music experimental? Well, my problem is, is that its not experimental. I'm not experimenting. I know exactly what I'm doing. Experimenting is doing something and not knowing of the result. If a drummer gets on stage and tries to play bag pipes for the first time, then THAT is experimental. We are eons past experimenting with music.

So what do I call it?

I call it vibrations.