Knowra Noise music Noise music Noise music is an experimental genre that treats noise, distortion, feedback, and unconventional sounds as primary musical materials rather than incidental defects.
Audio feedback : Audio feedback occurs when amplified sound returns to a microphone or instrument input and is amplified again. Repeated amplification turns a technical instability into a controllable source of sustained tones and squeals.
Futurism : Futurism was an early twentieth-century artistic movement that celebrated speed, machinery, and modern urban life. Its celebration of industrial sound helped legitimize noise as artistic material.
Merzbow : Merzbow is the project of Japanese noise musician Masami Akita, known for dense electronic sound and an extensive recording history. Akita’s work became a defining reference point for harsh noise.
Harsh noise : Harsh noise is a noise-music style built from sustained, high-intensity, abrasive sound. It is one of the genre’s most direct forms, emphasizing density and sonic extremity.
Industrial music : Industrial music is an experimental popular-music tradition associated with electronic sound, mechanical imagery, and confrontational aesthetics. It shares harsh timbres with noise music but often retains songs, rhythms, or dance structures.
Distortion : Distortion is a change to a sound signal that alters its waveform and adds or reshapes its frequency content. Clipping and saturation give noise music many of its harsh, dense timbres.
The Art of Noises : The Art of Noises is Luigi Russolo’s 1913 manifesto proposing that modern music embrace the sounds of industrial life. Russolo gave an explicit early argument for expanding musical sound beyond conventional instruments.
Masami Akita : Masami Akita is a Japanese musician and artist best known for creating the noise project Merzbow. His methods and prolific output shaped international understandings of noise music.
Power electronics : Power electronics is a confrontational noise-music style characterized by harsh electronic sound and often spoken or shouted vocals. It combines noise with performance and lyrical provocation.
Electronic music : Electronic music is music produced or transformed using electronic instruments and signal-processing technologies. Noise music overlaps with this broad field but is defined by its treatment of noise, not its equipment.
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