{"id":17306,"date":"2019-03-06T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=17306"},"modified":"2019-03-04T13:08:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T21:08:29","slug":"dry-sockets-fest-brings-the-noise-with-two-days-of-experimental-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/03\/06\/dry-sockets-fest-brings-the-noise-with-two-days-of-experimental-sounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Dry Sockets fest brings the noise with two days of experimental sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cWith Death Squad it was pointing a loaded gun at the audience and\u2026 taking the audience hostage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s Michael Nine, who performs noise under the name MK9 and previously as Death Squad, talking about some of his more memorable performances. MK9 is one of 18 artists from across North America performing at Dry Socket, a music festival featuring a litany of noise acts. Although the genre is unconventional, its fans acquire an immense sense of satisfaction from it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s sort of an intensity,\u201d says Dry Socket founder Ron Brogden. \u201cAs soon as you get away from worrying much about songwriting in the pop-music sense, the further away from that, the closer you get to the visceral side of sound. With something like The Rita, just the impact that has is the closest, for me anyway, that you\u2019re ever going to get to the first time you saw a punk rock band. Obviously now, punk rock\u2019s been around a long time, but the first time you see something that you\u2019ve never seen before, that totally speaks to you and has an impact; noise is able to maintain that to a certain extent.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dry Socket will host many accomplished musicians; however, headliner The Rita stands out with his extremely experimental and creative process for conjuring harsh noise. Sam McKinlay, the solo artist behind The Rita, has been into creating harsh noise for years, from using dirt bikes in art galleries to making noise with ballerinas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom, like, the mid-\u201990s on, I kind of just made it my own,\u201d says McKinlay. \u201cI just got more and more into the analogue effects and the custom fuzz pedals. Lately, I work with ballet dancers a lot. So I\u2019ll have them rigged up to a microphone; then, as they move, it translates into that exact same sound\u2014like, rigged up to their thighs and the arches of their feet and the floor that they\u2019re on, and as they move, it virtually, eventually, just creates that same sound I achieved in the art gallery with the dirt bike. So again, it\u2019s just translating various obsessions and interests into a sound I absolutely love. And then in a live environment, it\u2019s a really crushing, high-volume experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vancouver\u2019s Sam McKinlay performs noise as The Rita (photo by Michael Nine).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Although to an outsider noise seems to be about being the most extreme, it\u2019s like any art. At its core, it\u2019s a labour of love, a medium for expression and the shared, arduous experience of being a human being. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I first started doing it, I was listening to some stuff, and really enjoyed the sounds and just wanted to kind of make my own sounds,\u201d says Nine. \u201cI\u2019ve always been searching for specific frequencies, so when I was first doing stuff in \u201990 and \u201991, I never thought of releasing anything, never thought of performing. It sounds clich\u00e9, [but it was] like personal therapy. Like the frequencies, if I could manipulate whatever I was using to make sounds that would affect my brain and alleviate stress or depression or anything, that\u2019s what the whole beginning of it was.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The genre of noise is broad and doesn\u2019t discriminate against new ideas and experimental interpretations, making it an incredibly versatile and ever-expanding model for music. However, even with its incredibly experimental nature, it still has feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think if someone\u2019s doing something that\u2019s honest, and from their heart and their soul, giving everything that they have,\u201d says Nine, \u201cI think that\u2019s what makes some of the best stuff.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of which begs the question: can workers on a construction site accidentally make a great noise record?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s some famous\u2014well, infamous\u2014early Japanese noise acts like Hatanarash; [one of] their gig[s] involved using a backhoe to tear down the gallery they were in,\u201d says Brogden. \u201cSo definitely I expect\u2014I can\u2019t say this 100 percent for sure\u2014people have gone and recorded construction sites to be able to use those sounds. You know, I\u2019d listen to it. And I do\u2014if I\u2019m walking downtown, and they\u2019ve got the piledriver going and something whirring in the back, you\u2019ll see me standing there smiling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dry Sockets
7 pm Friday, March 8 and Saturday, March 9
$20, Intrepid Theatre
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