10 Facts About Noise music

Noise music is a genre of music that is characterised by the expressive use of noise within a musical context.

Noise music includes a wide range of musical styles and sound-based creative practices that feature noise as a primary aspect.

Contemporary noise music is often associated with extreme volume and distortion.

Noise music indicates that noise in music is a predictor of social change and demonstrates how noise acts as the subconscious of society—validating and testing new social and political realities.

Russolo found traditional melodic music confining and envisioned noise music as its future replacement.

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Noise music designed and constructed a number of noise-generating devices called intonarumori and assembled a noise orchestra to perform with them.

The 1921 made phonograph with works entitled Corale and Serenata, combined conventional orchestral music set against the famous noise machines and is the only surviving sound recording.

Noise music's aim was to capture and control elements of the sonic environment and employ a method of sound organisation, a term borrowed from Varese, to bring meaning to the sound materials.

In 1957, Edgard Varese created on tape an extended piece of electronic music using noises created by scraping, thumping and blowing titled Poeme electronique.

Around the same time, the first postmodern wave of industrial noise music appeared with The Pop Group, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, and NON.