| LC control no. | sh2001009873 |
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| Topical heading | Noise music |
| See also | Music |
| Found in | Work cat.: Incapacitants (Musical group). Incapacitants present No progress [SR] 199- . Incapacitants WWW site, July 9, 2001: profile (The performances of Incapacitants ... are so wide-open that they explode the usual image of noise music. Along with Hijo Kaidan, Merzbow, C.C.C.C., and Solmania, Incapacitants is one of the most well known of the noise bands which started out in the early '80s) All music guide to electronica, c2001: p. xii (Brief style descriptions. Noise: Sludgy, abrasive, and punishing. "Noise" is everything its name promises, expanding on the music's capacity for sonic assault while almost entirely rejecting the rold of melody and songcraft. From the ear-splitting, teeth-rattling attack of Japan's Merzbow to the thick, grinding intensity of Amphetamine Reptile-label bands like Tar and Vertigo, it's dark, brutal music that pushes rock to its furthest extremes. By the end of the '90s, a resurgence in the use of sine waves--originally explored by musique concrète artists in the '50s--became increasingly frequent among "noise" artists such as Otomo Yoshihide) p. 325, under Merzbow (guitar, effects, producer/noise, dark ambient, experimental ... one of the world's most prolific practitioners of eardrum-assaulting Japanese noise) Improvised music from Japan website, Dec. 9, 2019 (Incapacitants: Toshiji Mikawa: electronics, voice; Fumio Kosakai: electronics, voice; noise music; from the beginning, while the attempt to achieve pure noise has been the most important aspect of their sound, they have also been famous for their stage performances, which are so wild they may remind people of pro wrestling matches. This aggressive, energetic style and the beauty of their noise are unrivaled) rateyourmusic.com website, Dec. 9, 2019: Genres > Experimental > Noise (Noise is an Experimental genre that strays away from conventional music structure, tonality, and composition and - as the name implies - consists predominantly of noise. Such music can be created or generated with virtually anything, including acoustic and traditional instruments, non-musical objects and machinery, extreme vocal techniques, and electronic equipment. Noise is often cacophonous, improvised in its composition, dissonant, loud, and abrasive. These noisy techniques are commonly created with feedback, distortion, manipulation, computer generation, etc. ... While avant-garde classical compositions and Electronic experiments of the early 1960s were steadily utilising noise more frequently, popular music was also starting to catch on to the style. In 1966, The Velvet Underground's John Cale recorded Loop, another track which honed in on audio feedback and Drone sounds. ... Since its inception, noise has evolved into and influenced a wide spectrum of genres and styles, across all levels of intensity. While some took it to their harsh extremities, such as the Harsh Noise Wall style of often-unchanging walls of static noise, other styles like Noise Rock and Noise Pop used noise in a more accessible way, retaining traditional rock song tropes.) AllMusic website, Dec. 9, 2019: Genres > Avant-Garde > Sound Art > Noise (Sludgy, abrasive, and punishing, Noise is everything its name promises, expanding on the music's capacity for sonic assault while almost entirely rejecting the role of melody and songcraft. From the ear-splitting, teeth-rattling attack of Japan's Merzbow to the thick, grinding intensity of Amphetamine Reptile-label bands like Tar and Vertigo, it's dark, brutal music that pushes rock to its furthest extremes. By the end of the '90s, a resurgence in the use of sine waves -- originally explored by musique concrète artists in the '50s -- became increasingly frequent among noise artists such as Otomo Yoshihide) Noise music, via last.fm website, Dec. 9, 2019 (Noise music is a type of music that employs noise as a musical resource. It is generally created with nontraditional musical instruments such as static, feedback, electronics, circuit bent instruments, or any other noise source. The genre explores cacophony, repetitive sounds, atonal randomness, indeterminacy and dissonance. The earliest noise music was created by futurist composer Luigi Russolo in the early 1910s. ... In the mid 1970s, free improvisational music was becoming more and more extreme, and groups like Dedalus created music bordering on noise. In the late 1970s, industrial musicians like Boyd Rice (A.K.A. NON), SPK, and Maurizio Bianchi experimented with noise. ... The modern harsh noise genre is largely a creation of Japanoise musicians such as Hanatarash and Hijokaidan in the mid-1980s. Other noise subgenres include harsh wall noise (based on unchanging "walls" of noise) and power electronics (based on modified electronics and screamed & shouted vocals) |
| Not found in | Shuker, R. Key concepts in popular music, 1998; The electronica primer WWW site, July 17, 2001 |
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