Null [ neoclassical music ]

The binge of Japanese noise bands that introduced the early 1990s was preceded by the experimental tribal/industrial/metal work of K.K. Null as primary guitarist and mastermind of Zeni Geva, a groundbreakingly disturbed howl of the primal against modern machinery in a clashing wave of noise. His more contemplative noise pieces, released under the band name Null, utilize the harsh and grating sounds of distortion to isolate repeated patterns and turn them into hypnotic, pseudo-melodic figures of noise twisted under pressure. With experience has come a wisdom of the systemic, and in these pieces one will find as in James Joyce's "Ulysses" a syncretism of detail with nothingness to provide a coherent if seemingly unintentional narrative.