Noise
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Noise is sound, chiefly unwanted, unintentional, or harmful sound considered unpleasant, loud, or disruptive to mental or hearing faculties. From a physics standpoint, there is no distinction between
NASA researchers at Glenn Research Center measuring aircraft engine noise in 1967
The urban police of Milan while using a noise measurement device for sound level control on city streets in 1955
Noise music
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Noise music is a subgenre of experimental music that is characterised by its use of unwanted noise as a primary musical element. The genre has roots in early 20th century avant-garde music, but later
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…body while psychological noise is perceived as our conscious awareness shifts its attention to that noise. Luigi Russolo, one of the first composers of noise music, wrote the essay The Art of Noises. He argued that any kind of noise could be used as music, as audiences become more familiar with noises caused by…
Depiction of charivari, early 14th century (from the Roman de Fauvel)
Luigi Russolo and his assistant Ugo Piatti in their Milan studio in 1913 with the Intonarumori (noise machines)
Merzbow, prominent Japanoise musician, in 2007
Futurist pratella