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Zero Tolerance for Silence
Zero Tolerance for Silence is a studio album by American jazz guitarist Pat Metheny that was released by Geffen Records label in 1994. The album was recorded in one day and consists of improvised, solo electric guitar. 
Background and reception.
Tim Griggs of AllMusic called it "semi-organized noise."
Griggs has two theories about the album's origins. The first is that Metheny was upset with Geffen, and as his contract was ending this was his way of expressing his displeasure.
world in which I am usually functioning in a more 3-D way. It is entirely flat music, and that was exactly what it was intended to be.
Griggs's second theory is that Metheny simply made the kind of album he wanted to make. At "All About Jazz", one critic called it "the album no one seems to understand."
The cover of "Zero Tolerance for Silence" carried an endorsement by Thurston Moore, guitarist for Sonic Youth, who called the album "an incendiary work