Icons Noise

DREISECHSFUENF#1, Tag 7

Icons noise

fine art by:

Aleksandra Andrejewna
Vera Klimentyeva
Verena Andrea Prenner
Christoph Offerus Ablinger

• secret audio special ghost

curated by Georgij Melnikov

The works choosen for the Icons Noise show reflect on the contemporary icons and their traditional counterparts. The noise esthetic developes naturally within the presented artworks through the distortion and rearangment of tradition and the new idieologies brought by capitalist globalisation and the aera of web based culture.

Icon (from Greek ????? eik?n “image”) is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, from Eastern Christianity and certain Eastern Catholic churches. The most common subjects include Christ, Mary, saints and/or angels. Though especially associated with “portrait” style images concentrating on one or two main figures, the term also covers most religious images in a variety of artistic media produced by Eastern Christianity, including narrative scenes.

Noise music is a category of music that is characterised by the expressive use of noise within a musical context. This type of music tends to challenge the distinction that is made in conventional musical practices between musical and non-musical sound.[1] Noise music includes a wide range of musical styles and sound-based creative practices that feature noise as a primary aspect. It can feature acoustically or electronically generated noise, and both traditional and unconventional musical instruments.
It may incorporate live machine sounds, non-musical vocal techniques, physically manipulated audio media, processed sound recordings, field recording, computer-generated noise, stochastic process, and other randomly produced electronic signals such as distortion, feedback, static, hiss and hum. There may also be emphasis on high volume levels and lengthy, continuous pieces. More generally noise music may contain aspects such as improvisation, extended technique, cacophony and indeterminacy, and in many instances conventional use of melody, harmony, rhythm and pulse is dispensed with.

The Futurist art movement was important for the development of the noise aesthetic, as was the Dada art movement (a prime example being the Antisymphony concert performed on April 30, 1919 in Berlin), and later the Surrealist and Fluxus art movements.