noise music
Feedback as art
Noise music is a genre that uses harsh, discordant, or unconventional sounds as its primary material—static, feedback, distortion, industrial clangs, or found sounds.
It deliberately rejects traditional elements like melody, harmony, and rhythm in favor of texture and intensity.
The genre emerged from avant-garde and industrial music scenes: The noise music show was less a concert than an endurance test.
Listeners either find it thrilling or unbearable.
- musique concrèteElectroacoustic genre using recordings
- avant-gardeInnovative cultural pioneers
- distortionTwisting from original state
- dissonanceLack of harmony
- synthesizerElectronic sound-generating instrument
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Western orchestral tradition
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Undemanding melodic audio
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Catchy, commercial song genre
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