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take me back; I want none of this "But right here I think I have to say that while I understand the relationship Akita sees between noise and pornography-- porn as the cast-off byproduct of society, the stuff that we all want, on some level, to sweep under the carpet but which flourishes and grows in the darkness only to explode out at unwanted times and surprise us, aesthetic refuse, and maybe even on a certain level aesthetic terrorism-- while I do get this I still think that his associating noise with pornography and pornographic images has been largely to its detriment. I get that Akita is interested in exploring porn, and he's also interested in bondage culture (apparently he's written a few books on the subject in japan), and japanese bondage culture is very, very different than western bondage culture. In japan it's more of a pure, meditative aesthetic with senseis and apprentices both in the areas of 'bondage masters' and bondage models. Like almost everything japanese it seems to be infused with an almost transcendent and philosophical spirit. Or at the least it's a meditative discipline. Japanese bondage is a ritualized discipline that distances it from sex and control and power and makes it exist strictly as a thing in itself, something that is for its own sake and nothing more, both meaningless and full of meaning, much like noise, much like zen buddhism, much like bonsai arts, much like the tending of rock gardens. So, on one level I do respect that kind of abstraction and attention to the infinite found by elevating even the basest of activities to a level of spiritual perfection. And even though I don't share it and wish he'd tone it down a bit, I accept masami Akita's interest in bondage as part of his art. But, on the other hand, I do think that the porno-noise connection has gone on long enough and we should work towards something else now. Especially in the west where we just don't view things like pornography and bondage in the same way as the japanese. And Akita's obsessive use of bondage and sexual themes has, in the western world at least, made the noise scene a ghetto for dirty little boys who want to break all the rules and seem bad without actually caring about what they're doing or why." http://briancotts.tripod.com/cottsweb/thirty/thirty41.html