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Originally Posted by jon boy
after the weekend i just had, my hearing has taken a massive hammering. it was worth it though.
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I remember Atari Teenage Riot as being lots louder than Merzbow was - I wonder if my hearing has deteriorated since then... Haino in Newcastle was probably the loudest thing I've seen, it was absolutely absurd. But then there's a lot more dynamic sounds in Haino. As I've said, Merzbow was a big doughy nougat of sound.
EDIT: I'll add that probably the most intense sound I ever heard was a Kaija Saariaho concert at the Royal Albert Hall, although seeing a sextet version of Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht last year was pretty amazing as well. Intense in the sense of being unable to breathe and wanting to collapse. Just to be clear.