what is noise music?  

"Noise" could be defined as Anti-Music. Where "music" is structured, organized, preplanned sound, "noise" is chaotic and random sound that serves no purpose. So what is "noise music"?

Modern "noise music" finds it's roots in early electronic and industrial musics. Where composers began expanding their vocabulary of sound and instrumentation is where the concept of "noise" begins: what sounds can produce music and which are purely static or noise? For some, music's outer boundary is defined by western european classical instruments designed hundreds of years ago and the sounds, pitches, rhythms they can (classically) produce. For others, no sound, rhythm, tone, or pitch is off limits; music can be made by anything that can vibrate air.

So "noise" is relative; as an extreme point of reference, when one refers to today's noise music, there is typically the association to some insane Japanese sound sculptor screaming and pounding sound through endless feedback loops of overdriven distortion pedals and short wave radios, producing waveforms in chaotic and unpredictable shapes.

But in it's creation, however random, however chaotic, "noise music" has a beginning and an end; it has a defined set of instrumentation and a set of controls; there are actions required to produce the sound. These are elements of structure and organization that that makes the noise . . . music?

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