noise, volume 1

noisevol. 1 // 21 november 2014

nWHAT IS NOISE?noise (noiz) n. a sound, especially one that is loud or unpleasant or that causes disturbance. to a lot of people, that’s who we are;noise. but you know, and we know that we are all much more than just noise. we are tones, beautiful sounds, notes that resonate in harmony with the visuals we create, with the words we use to strike pages, with the opinions and thoughts we sound out—noise is a collection of that, like a symphony, playing out the beautiful melody that is your expression.your piece awaits.

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YOUR HEAD IN THE CLOUDS by JM

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IF HANDS WERE HEARTS by SSLet me be your favorite art piece

Let my cheeks be your canvas

Your whispers painting rose petals on my skin

Let me be the red balloon you lost when you were six;

Hold on to me too tight

Scared of losing me but loving the way I look against the sky

Let me scare you

Let my tongue leave scars on your soul

Let the breaths I blow in your face ignite the fire in your eyes

So that everything else is winter

When we light up the world

Let sanity be just a word

And days a unit of measure that create silence

In the music we make with intertwined hands

Let me follow you into the ocean

When your balloon turns into a boat

That’s lost at sea

ビルボード by JM

Some pictures of Tokyo prominently featuring billboards.

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MEMORY_1 by SR//Memory_1, Roll_1, Archive_1//

12/15/57

I remember feeling young. It was right after “The New Deal”, and tril-lions were injected into the American Dream, headways in genetics and technology had the world working towards cheap labor and fast profits. We were the patient, and commercialized hope was the I.V. that dripped life into our mud and mortar veins.

And it worked after all, didn’t it?

I remember being young. We lived in a rickety house a ways off the main road to Dallas, where summer breezes swished through the two-story like an oven door closing. My earliest memories are of an orange sun bleeding into a cloudy sky, and the sound of Mama’s wooden rocker against the wooden porch. My earliest memories are of sparkler candles on a pink frosted cake, the crooning voice of my nana and the flicker of fire against the glass cabinet with the good china inside. I remember tiny hands that tugged a chipped plastic brush across blonde hair. I remember sticky palms from popsicle syrup.

Funny how things change, isn’t it?

MERGING MAN & MACHINE by VP

Last piece of a triptych of drawings, concerning the transformation of man into technology.

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GAS STATIONS by MSthere are a million stars and half a million gas stations between you and me but that doesn’t equal distance. day breaks, day shatters into evanescent pieces that float on the edge of my conscious mind, but you are the constant. your eyes the color of ground hazelnuts have always been my constant.

it doesn’t matter that we are separate beings because, here, in the light of a setting sun and a milky twilight, we are one. we are melted together like hershey kisses in a bowl on a summer evening and worry is not a word and slowly, you become my kryptonite.

missed phone calls, missed deadlines, missed laughs. i used to count your sneezes in the biting chill of early february and wrap your arms around my waist so i could feel like something was keeping my balloon from flying into the void where lost balloons go. you held onto my balloon until the wind pulled it away. i blame myself for that.

now there are two million stars and a million gas stations between us because i am trying to forget that you ever broke my carefully crafted barricade that contained all my closeted skeletons.

i’m starting to remember why i never liked hazelnuts.

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TRASH ART by FN

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RAILS by RG

Washington DC, metro. Taken while the station was mostly empty.

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TWELVE FEET DEEP by SIIt’s been months since I have been free from his blank stares.

His despondent tone of voice.

His empty “I love you”s.

I love him too.

What else was I supposed to do?

He can’t love someone else.

Now he’s twelve feet underground.

He is still mine

I am free,

and no one can know.

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VIENNA by GZ

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VOICES by ABIt’s a sunrise, majestic and tall. It’s a large ocean wave, crashing. We are all trying to escape, our lungs breathing in the earth and the air too fast. Run too fast and you may never come back. The earth is still but the trees are dancing with wavy, spindly limbs of bark greeting the barefoot newcomers of the forest. It’s a dance, the grass swinging under new feet. There are voices, screaming voices that are full of bubbling joy. The stale wind moves through the forest in new, forceful gusts. The air is alive, feet and hands and dresses and shoes thrown wildly across the forest of dancing trees. The bodies of joy are slower, slowing, stopped. Falling upon the grass in a whimsical manor, limbs sprawl upon one another and heads close in an attempt to share thoughts, memories. These are the voices, the embodiment of the forest.

WHERE IS YOUR MIND by BXshe is the cigarette smoked before bed each night. she is the poetry book resting by her bed (between the fish bowl and the liquor store receipt) she is the rum that trickles down her throat when nights are just too goddamn empty. she is from the nights where death feels more tangible than hope. she is absolution. she is resolution.

she is not like other girls. she is not sweet or submissive. she will not put up with your bullshit. she does not have galaxies in her eyes or flowers in her heart. she is born of gunpowder and lightning. with hair like the sun and eyes bluer than the fucking ocean, you will only see shipwrecks when you look into her smile. her mind is a maze. she eats boys like you for breakfast.

the truth of the matter is that you will never truly understand her.

you would lose your mind while trying to comprehend hers.

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FREDDY by AB

HEADSTACK by AB

Award-Winning ATPIEntry, First PlaceDigitally ConstructedPhotography

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SOMETHING DIFFERENT

Everything’s just a little different.Contents: Constant Conversations by Passion Pit, Can’t Stop by Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lisztomania by Phoenix, Some-thing Good Can Work by Two Door Cinema Club, Telescope by Cage the Elephant, On Melancholy Hill by Gorrilaz, Candlelight by Relient K, Little Secrets by Passion Pit, Daylight by Matt and Kim, World at Large + Float On by Modest Mouse, What A Catch, Donny by Fall Out Boy, Believe by The Bravery, Undercover Martyn by Two Door Cinema Club, Breaking Up My Bones by Vinyl Theatre

14 songs, 56 minutes

TUNE CATALOGUEEach of our playlists is carefully crafted with the special care of our submission authors to give you the best listening experience you could ask for. Take a flip through the catalogue, find something that suits your mood, sit back, and listen.If you don’t own the songs, each and every playlist is online:http://8tracks.com/noisezine

HIPSTER-ASS JAMS

Actually be like the cool kids.Contents: Alice by Pogo, Sad Machine (Remix) by Anamanaguchi, Comeback Kid by Sleigh Bells, Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second by Starfucker, Trying To Be Cool by Phoenix, Bury Us Alive by Starfucker, How Do I Tell A Girl I Want To Kiss Her? by Modern Baseball, So Far (It’s Alright) by The 1975, Twin Size Mattress by The Front Bottoms, Cough Syrup by Young the Giant, Sleepy Kids by Passion Pit vs. MGMT, Awkward by San Cisco


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THIS TIME TOMORROW

Let’s take a drive out to nowhere.Contents: Miss You by The Rolling Stones, This Time Tomorrow by The Kinks, Look At Me Now by The Elected, Midnight Blues by The Detroit Cobras, My Sharona by The Knack, Zigzagging Toward the Light by Conor Oberst, Heros and Villains by The Beach Boys, Dreamworld by Rilo Kiley, King of Carrot Flowers Part I by Neutral Milk Hotel

9 songs, 33 minutes

PERIPHERAL AFFAIRS

For your sad or content days.Contents: Hippy Hill by Grouplove, Black Beauty by Lana Del Rey, Swingin Party by Lorde, Lies by Marina and the Dia-monds, Nearly Witches by Panic! At The Disco, Apartment by Modern Baseball, Happiness Is Overrated by The Airborne Toxic Event, Obsessions by Marina and the Diamonds, Don’t Swallow The Cap by The National, Slow by Grouplove, Nir-vana by Lana Del Rey, Haunt Me by Teen Suicide, Posters by Youth Lagoon


SYNTHETIC NOISE

Trash : products :: this playlist : music.Contents: 1:18 by Lemaitre, Patrick 122 by Mr. Oizo, Shiny Metal Dude by Breakbot, Five Hours by Deorro, Ameri-can Dream pt. 2 by TEED, Imperium by Madeon, We Are From Venice by The Bloody Beetroots, Secam by Mr. Oizo, Hot Sugar by Waiting Room

8 songs, 38 minutes

STARING OUT WINDOWS

It’s like, Indie, you uncultured swine.Contents: Wild Light by Wild Cub, Fred Astaire by San Cisco, Holding On To You by Twenty One Pilots, Camillo by Said The Whale, Shadow by Bleachers, Twelve Feet Deep by The Front Bottoms, Haunting Me by Sleeper Agent, Street-lights by Wild Cub, Bullet by Steel Train, Lovely Cup by Grouplove, Take Me Away by Bleachers


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PUNCHING IN A DREAM

For that beach-y, vacation-y feel.Contents: Punching in a Dream by the Na-ked and Famous, Harlem by New Politics, Ready to Go by Panic! at the Disco, Out of My League by Fitz and The Tantrums, Oh K, Okay by Said The Whale, Bad Kids by Black Lips, Shark Attack by Grouplove, Ocean Avenue by Yellowcard, Girls by The 1975, Heroes by David Bowie, The Mother We Share by Chvrches, Tongue Tied by Grouplove, Take a Walk by Passion Pit, Cool Kids by Echosmith, Diane Young by Vampire Weekend, Team by Lorde


PEPPERMINT TEA

For hot baths and car rides through green forests.Contents: Across the Universe by The Beatles, Silent Sunlight by Cat Stevens, And I Love Her by The Beatles, Beautiful Boy by John Lennon, The Boxer by Simon & Garfunkel, The Long and Winding Road by The Beatles, Vienna by Billy Joel, Rocky Racoon by The Beatles, If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out by Cat Stevens, I Will by The Beatles, Ripple by Grateful Dead, Fool on the Hill by The Beatles, For Those Below by Mumford and Sons


GET BOSSED UP

For those bad days.Contents: Flawless by Beyoncé, Cell Block Tango from Chicago, Gonna Get Over You by Sara Bareilles, Don’t Save Me by HAIM, No Envy, No Fear by Joshua Radin, Mardy Bum by Arctic Monkeys, King of Anything by Sara Bareilles, I’m Out by Ciara, I Don’t Need a Man by Miss A, Bad Before Good by Day One


YOU WEREN’T WORTH IT

Thanks for the most mediocre summer ever.Contents: Like Or Like Like by Miniature Tigers, Tears Over Beers by Modern Baseball, This Year by The Mountain Goats, Say It, Just Say It by the Mowglis, Backflip by The Front Bottoms, Anyone Else But You by The Moldy Peaches, Rock Bottom by Modern Baseball

7 songs, 22 minutes

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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EDITORSJM – Design Editor, SI – Playlist Editor, SS – Submission Editor

VISUAL CONTRIBUTORSCOVER - JM, 2 - JM, 4 - JM, 6 - VP, 8 - FN, 9/10 - RG, 12 - GZ, 14 - AB, 14 - AB, 18 - JM

VERBAL CONTRIBUTORS3 - SS, 5 - SR, 7 - MS, 11 - SI, 13 - BX, 13 - AB

PLAYLIST CONTRIBUTORSKH, DB, SI, JM, FN, KC, SS, MN, GZ, SI

SPECIAL THANKS TOSR for advertising, KJ for printing,HG, ES, KP, SR, AV for encouragement, and RC for (inadvertly) creating this.

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