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'''No-Fi''' is [[music]] or [[Recording medium|media]] created outside conventional technical standards.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/mixing-it-up-again-no-fi-style/story-e6frfn29-1226512759180|title=Mixing it up again no-fi style|author=Mikey Cahill|date=8 November 2012|publisher=The Age}}</ref> |
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==The name== |
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Where "[[Hi-fi]]" and "[[Lo-fi]]" are short for "High Fidelity" and "Low Fidelity", respectively, "No-fi" is a play-on-words intended to be interpreted as meaning "No Fidelity". |
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==The sound== |
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No-Fi is an extraordinarily diverse aesthetic, covering many mediums other than just music, though the music holds a central role in the foundation, definition and formation of the genre. It has been suggested that No-Fi music is: on the edge of losing control or collapsing into non-music, [[nihilism|nihilistic]] to the standards of acceptable composition, bastardizing, mocking of convention, unclean, containing "natural" noises and various sonic artifacts, such as natural [[reverb]] and echoes, [[distortion]], tape-hiss and/or feedback, lack of sound-picture clarity, improvisation suggesting the lack of a separate "truth" behind the origins of a piece, and the use of noise as an "instrument" (Similar to [[Noise music|Noise]] artists). |
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Though according themselves other stylistic titles the bands [[Slicing Grandpa]], [[Eric's Trip]], [[Bone Awl]], [[Nailed Down]], [[Black Light Brigade]], [[Sonic Youth]]'s early work, much of [[Darkthrone]]'s work (particularly ''[[Transilvanian Hunger]]'' and ''[[F.O.A.D.]]''), and the more "raw" forms of [[Punk rock|punk]] especially the [[crust punk]] scene would exemplify some or all of No-Fi's aesthetic. No-Fi has made its way to music forms such as [[hip-hop]], where artists such as [[MF Doom]] and the "No-Fi King" Speed on the Beat have taken the aesthetic and used it to enrich their storytelling<ref>http://www.speedonthebeat.com/2013/05/the-reason-for-no-fi-and-speed-flow.html</i>. |
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==History== |
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Though existing beforehand in [[underground music]] culture, and used by several bands and artists to describe their work, the term was popularized by No-Fi "Magazine" in the mid-1990s. Originating from compulsory lo-fi recordings as said earlier due to the quality of the equipment used at the time. |
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==See also== |
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*[[Circuit bending]] |
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*[[Experimental Music]] |
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*[[Noise (music)]] |
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==References== |
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{{Reflist}} |
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==External links== |
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*[http://nofidelity.com/ No Fidelity], a website with bands, art and other No Fi material |
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*[http://www.blacklightbrigade.com/ Black Light Brigade] active UK based No-Fi band |
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{{experimental music genres}} |
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[[Category:Noise music]] |
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[[Category:Fluxus]] |
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