Noise rock

Noise rock is a style of rock music that became prominent in the 1980s. Noise rock makes use of the traditional instrumentation and iconography of rock, but incorporates atonality and especially dissonance, and frequently discards typical songwriting conventions. Noise rock developed from early avant-garde music, sound art, and rock songs featuring extremely dissonant sounds and electronic feedback. The New York no wave scene, featuring such artists as Mars and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks in the late 1970s, was an essential development in noise rock. A number of noise rock bands emerged in North America in the 1980s. These included Caroliner, and Grotus (San Francisco), Big Black (Chicago), Butthole Surfers,The Jesus Lizard,Scratch Acid (Texas), The Melvins (Montesano, Washington), Dinosaur Jr. (Massachusetts), Sonic Youth,Live Skull, Swans,White Zombie, The Thing, Blow 454 and Helmet (New York), Pussy Galore and Royal Trux (Washington DC), among many others.

A similar scene also began to develop in Osaka, Japan, spearheaded by Hanatarash and the Boredoms, The British shoegazing groups developed an entirely distinct form of noise rock, largely derived from the so-called noise pop related genre. Some math rock groups like Don Caballero are also considered noise rock. The '80s noise rock bands were significant influences on Nirvana and Hole, The powerviolence scene was close to noise rock, with Man Is the Bastard eventually dissolving into unstructured noise music.

White noise (disambiguation)

White noise is a signal or sound with a flat frequency spectrum.

White noise may also refer to:

In music

Noise

Noise is a variety of sound. It means any unwanted sound. Sounds, particularly loud ones, that disturb people or make it difficult to hear wanted sounds, are noise. For example, conversations of other people may be called noise by people not involved in any of them; any unwanted sound such as neighbours playing loud music, portable mechanical saws, road traffic sounds, or a distant aircraft in quiet countryside, is called noise.

Acoustic noise can be anything from quiet but annoying to loud and harmful. At one extreme users of public transport sometimes complain about the faint and tinny sounds emanating from the headphones or earbuds of somebody listening to a portable audio player; at the other the sound of very loud music, a jet engine at close quarters, etc. can cause irreversible hearing damage. At intermediate levels there are a range of deleterious health effects from noise. This "intolerable corruption of human space" can be called noise pollution. A claim made by Luigi Russolo in his article, The Joys of Noise is that noise has become so prominent that pure sound no longer exists.