Much Too Much Noise
publishes conceptual stuff in various media.
This is its only website.
Its name was previously used for two zines: issue#1 & issue#2
It is run by David Pocknee
For ordering physical copies of our books, go to our lulu.com page
or contact:
Releases
MTMN005: Selfhelplessness (Online Version)
by David Pocknee
An online version of Selfhelplessness, the choose-your-own-adventure self-help book (see below).
Format: website
Released: 2017-08-14
MTMN004: Beach Bums
by Robert Blatt
A paperback book for the beach.
Released and on sale on 13 and 14 January 2017 at Weisslich Vol. 9 in Manchester and London.
First run of 20 copies.
Made by Robert Blatt
Copies can be bought directly from lulu.com:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/robert-blatt/beach-bums/paperback/product-23006491.html
or by contacting Much Too Much Noise via the address on the left.
Images Of The Book
An interview with Robert provided 8 Inspirational Quotes about the book!
MTMN003: Sonification of the electric field average intensity in dB above background at 76 logarithmically spaced frequencies ranging from 616 Hz to 10085542 Hz, between the dates 19-01-2016 at 00:01:30.000 and 19-01-2016 at 00:58:30.000
by Beavan Flanagan
20-track album (60 minutes)
This album transmits in sound one hour's worth of data retrieved from Nasa's WIND spacecraft, which is currently taking measurements of radio and plasma waves occurring in the solar wind (see http://wind.nasa.gov/).
Made by Beavan Flanagan
Format: 32bit 44100 Hz .aif recording with .rtf liner notes and .jpg album art
Released: 2016-02-02
Download album (.zip) 419MB
Download Liner Notes (.rtf) 17KB
Artwork (.jpg)
MTMN002: Selfhelplessness
by David Pocknee
A Choose Your Own Adventure Self-Help Book
Choose your own adventure, no-one cares enough about you to do it for you.
A choose your own adventure self-help book with no answers and which will make you feel worse after reading it than you did before.
Format: 100 page book, A5 size, 6 copies printed.
Also available as pdf (below)
Released: 2016-02-02
Buy a physical copy here:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/david-pocknee/self-helplessness/paperback/product-23332919.html.
Images Of The Book
MTMN001: MG3250 Performs Cornelis Cardew's Treatise
(Tray 1: Pages 1-94)
An inkjet printer performs the first 94 pages of Cornelis Cardew's Treatise.
Format: 320kbps mp3 recording with .txt liner notes
Released: 2015-10-15
Download Recording (.mp3) 121MB
Download Liner Notes (.txt) 2.97KB
Much Too Much Noise Zine #2 - Some Sadomasochistic Aspects Of Musical Pleasure
A zine discussing sadism and masochism in contemporary music.
Contributions from David Pocknee, Leo Svirsky, Ana Smaragda Lemnaru, Jeremiah Runnels
Edited by David Pocknee. Designed by Ana Samaragda Lemnaru
Format: Limited paper release, digital pdf.
Released: May 2012
"Welcome to the second edition of Much Too Much Noise; The Hague-based zine for radical aesthetics. This issue takes a look at the idea of sadism/masochism in art, taking as it’s inspiration Reinhold Friedl’s important, but little commented-on, analysis of the typology of pleasure involved in the performance of contemporary music. This provides a bungee-sprung launchpoint for discussions of the article itself, the violence of the orchestra, a disavowal of the masochistic construct, and a meditation on Jewish mysticism."
Much Too Much Noise Zine #1 - 9/11: Ten Years Of Sodom And Gomorrah
A zine discussing the impacts of 9/11, 10 years on.
Contributions from Acid Police Noise Ensemble, Anonymouse Stateless Immigrants
Edited by David Pocknee
Format: Limited paper release, digital pdf.
Released: 11 September 2011
"This edition of the zine has been published to coincide with the Hague-based group Acid Police Noise Ensemble’s music theatre piece; Stockhausen Serves Terrorism, 10 Years Of Sodom and Gomorrah, which will be performed on 11 September 2011, in Nutshuis, Den Haag. Put together in collaboration with Anonymous Stateless Immigrants, it is an evening of political work analyzing 9/11 and its fall-out through Stockhausen and Pasolini, and forms the basis for the texts in the first half of the zine. However, there are also fantastic articles on Maslow, improvisation, and death, as well as a reprinted version of an extremely important, but overlooked, essay by Joseph Massad on the historico-cultural implications of the Abu-Graihb atrocities."
Download online version (.pdf) 14.3MB
Download print version (.pdf) 14.4MB
The print and online versions differ slightly, the print version being the one distributed at the Acid Police Noise Ensemble & Anonymous Stateless Immigrants 9/11 concert on 11 September 2011, while the online version is the one found on issuu and circulating online.