Noise, Power Electronics, and the No-Audience Underground: Place, Performance and Discourse in Leeds’ Experimental Music Scene

This chapter presents two practitioner accounts by co-authors Theo Gowans and Dave Procter concerning place - real and virtual - and the contemporary Leeds noise scene. These accounts are prefaced by an analysis of the present scene’s heritage from The Termite Club: particular attention is paid to how discourses around the ethos of noise in Leeds have shifted since the Termite Club ceased its activities, primarily as a consequence of the venues in which these performances now take place