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Noise music is a genre of music that is characterised by the expressive use of noise. This type of music tends to challenge the distinction that is made in conventional musical practices between musical and non-musical sound. [4]
Jul 3, 2019 · Learn about the history and subgenres of noise music, from Japanoise to power electronics, from harsh noise to noise pop. Explore the artists, albums, and videos that define this extreme and diverse genre.
Learn about noise music, one of the loudest and most experimental styles of music, and listen to Merzbow's classic "Pulse Demon" from 1996. This video by Pad Chennington explores the history, aesthetics and techniques of noise music and features music from Night Light Tapes.
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Sonically, it’s what happens when you are unkind to an electric guitar at ear-splitting volume. Maybe you bang some unusual percussion together as well—pots, pans, car mufflers, etc. Basically, you have no respect for the 12-note scale, melody, rhythm and all those other musical niceties. You may have no skill whatsoever or all the chops of the mos...
Since discharging wounded banshee shrieks from her throat and a Fender guitar with Teenage Jesus And The Jerks in 1977, Lydia Lunchinforms noise as Iggy Pop informs punk. It all essentially starts with her. She’s refined her assault—musical and literary—in countless forms since. Including 8 Eyed Spy’s atonal swamp rock, her Queen Of Siamsolo album’...
Like Lunch and other NYC no wavers, British industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristlesaw some promise in early punk but were ultimately disappointed that it all boiled down to more rock ’n’ roll. They evolved from performance-art troupe COUM Transmissions, fronted by Genesis P-Orridgeand Cosey Fanni Tutti. Live, they confronted audiences with ugly imag...
Four San Francisco punk vets, Flipperassembled in 1979 in reaction to the scene’s increasing orthodoxy. As hardcore urged music to get louder and faster, Flipper opted to crank the volume knobs to 12 and break them off. Then they dropped tempos to the pace of molasses poured in the Antarctic. Guitarist Ted Falconi reduced his attack to a more disto...
Einstürzende Neubauten, roughly translated, is German for “collapsing new buildings.” These West Berliners were a lotta fun back in the ’80s, banging around on car doors and steel pipes with hammers, maybe applying a grinder or a chainsaw to sheet metal. Meanwhile, Blixa Bargeld looked like Sid Vicious’ corpse writhing around in some crazy S&M outf...
Meet noise’s MC5 or New York Dolls. With their overamplified junk shop guitars strung with piano wire or whatever they could afford, tuned to anything but A440, banged with screwdrivers or hammers, guitarists Thurston Mooreand Lee Ranaldo could raise some truly hideous tonalities. Their innovation was pairing this rethink of rock guitar with the po...
These acid-drenched Texans were the freakiest, most fearsome rolling roadshow of the mid-’80s. Butthole Surferswere a total assault on the mind: Drummers King Coffey and Teresa Nervosa bashing their kits standing up; Paul Leary pulling queasy chords outta his Stratocaster; and psychotic 6’5” frontman Gibby Haynes, the son of Dallas kids’ show host ...
The brainchild of future ’90s recording genius (Nirvana, Pixies) Steve Albini, everything about Chicago’s Big Blackwas designed to be an assault. For starters, there’s their drummer: a Roland TR-606, run through a clapped-out PA system pushed to its limits, so the beat was as abrasively distorted as Albini and Santiago Durango’s guitars. Or Dave Ri...
Four surly Scotsmen dressed in black, the Jesus And Mary Chainsomehow balanced a love of ’60s pop, punk and garage with a desire to create the most obnoxious racket they could muster. This involved future Primal Screamfrontman Bobby Gillespie beating the shit outta two and four on a minimal drumkit, William Reid abusing a cheap Japanese fuzzbox and...
Mid-’80s Washington, D.C. emigrates to the Lower East Side, Pussy Galorebrought the rock ’n’ roll and punk attitudes back to noise. Fronted by future Blues Explosion mastermind Jon Spencer, PG raised an unholy din not dissimilar to putting a copy of the Nuggets’60s garage comp and some scuffed-up Rolling Stones45s through a meat grinder. It helped ...
Learn about the origins and evolution of noise music, from punk and industrial to avant-garde and ambient. Discover 15 influential noise bands, from Lydia Lunch to Sonic Youth, and their best albums.
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Learn how noise has been used and defined in music throughout history, from ancient Greece to modern avant-garde. Explore the different types and genres of noise music, from unpitched percussion to electronic instruments.
Ever wanted to try out noise music? Curious? I talk about some of the elements of noise and ways of approaching this seemingly-impenetrable form of music. Le...
Feb 26, 2022 · A video that explores the different subgenres and the appeal of noise music, a form of experimental music that uses noise as a primary element. The video features examples of noise music by artists such as Merzbow, Lou Reed, Whitehouse, Swans, and more.
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