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Portland’s practitioners of noise music often make the claim that while our town’s more easily understood and readily palatable indie rockers get all the glory right now, it is the fierce cohort of feedback warriors, circuit-bending eggheads, and artsy voltage-assisted tantrum-throwers who are making the really notable sonic art in town, and about whom books will one day be written. Time will tell as far as publishing prospects go, but, thanks to local director Adam Cornelius and his insightful new documentary People Who Do Noise--which is about, well, people who do noise--the famously insular and fecund noise community of Portland is getting its critical due. Cornelius has smartly stitched together interviews with and performances by 15 of the regional subculture’s leading lights--from the fun-loving, grey-haired post-hippie trailblazers of Smegma, to the sociopathic scream machine Josh Hydeman, to the recently disbanded definitive noise duo Yellow Swans--to reveal the surprising diversity of motives, techniques, and sounds of the most divisive music in the world, from the city best known for it.
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