Arvind
Ganga is a noise artist that uses multiple instruments to create a sound that
is along the lines of Jay Peele and all of the other artists I have related to
Mr. Peele recently, but this is also a sound all of its own. I’ve always been a fan of music when you can’t
quite place what the instrument is but you have ideas, as well as the equally
neat feeling of hearing a sound but knowing that it is being made by some other
means and Arvind Ganga does both of these things most excellently.
We
begin with what sounds to me like some sort of noise manipulation that I cannot
quite place. It turns into the static
that comes with the changing of a radio station and then there are erratic
electric guitar notes, the likes of which you could make in Garage Band on your
iPhone if you just move your fingers rapidly (Both I and my two and a half year
old son have done this, though he does it better than me) There is this scratching sound which almost
sounds like scraping and then some dinging goes along with the rattling of the
pots and pans.
Side
B takes us on a journey more with glass bottles to start off and then it goes
into these strings that I cannot place but the closest instrument I can put it
to would be a harp though I know that’s wrong.
(It’s some kind of table-like guitar I can picture in my mind but just
don’t know the name of exactly) Sounds
of stretching come out next and it’s just this overall idea of running the
guitar pick down a guitar string and back and forth in various ways.
It
is only after the fact when I think about it that I also can imagine the sounds
are being made by the rubbing of a balloon.
Still, these are the sounds you cannot place but can put to perhaps the
wrong source and that is why I like them: things that sound like things but are
not those things.
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