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Okay, cool, allow me not to be subjective then: Merzbow has made a living making sounds that anyone in the entire world with no talent whatsoever could fart. He records toilets flushing, feedback, radio static, beating on metal shit, and rubbing his nipples, and people buy it in droves because it's merzbow. I DON'T DISLIKE MERZBOW. But I do find it HILARIOUS that he can just do any random boring bullshit, some people will hail it as genius, others hail it as shit, but when it comes down to it, no matter how interesting it is, it's really just.. well, noise.. and yet people spend tons of money on it. Crazy.
Subjectively, I'd gladly spend more money on interesting noise, since I own plenty of interesting noise releases. Merzbow is not very interesting to me.
[Same shit with mike patton though... love the dude, love his bands, but I mean, he could put out a cd of him farting and people would buy 100,000 copies... wait, that already happened! (adult themes for voice)]
And I hardly think Masami focuses that much on "texture". Maybe my definition of texture is different -- I'm thinking layers here. Pulse Demon, for example, is nothing but random noises cut up and spliced together forever. Not really textural, man. And the first 30 or so discs of the Merzbox are.. haha.. not textural at all. If anything is textural about him, it's his more recent (and least interesting) work with the laptop. Weird.
But you are right.. Merzbow definitely doesn't twittle knobs.
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