Mike Kelley formed seminal "anti-rock" band Destroy All Monsters in 1973. After several fairly regular changes in line-up over the following years--Kelley and co-founding member Jim Shaw left in 1976 and it continued in various incarnations for nearly another decade--the band officially stopped performing as Destroy All Monsters in 1985. But on November 21, 2009, as part of Mike Kelley's PERFORMA 09 mini-festival A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality: A Select History of Experimental Music, three of the four original members--Kelley, Shaw and Cary Loren--played a reunion performance. Here Kelley discusses considerations of noise--which began in part, he contends, with people trying to escape their backgrounds--and its integral relation to cultural and social differentiation. Kelley also airs his grievances with contemporary noise, its new prominence in the culturally assimilated underground mainstream and its political apathy. An excerpt of their performance follows the panel discussion (21 minutes).