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| '''Noise rock''' (sometimes called '''noise punk'''){{sfn|Felix|2010|p=172}} is a ]-oriented style of ]<ref name="Osborn2011">{{cite journal|last1=Osborn|first1=Brad|title=Understanding Through-Composition in Post-Rock, Math-Metal, and other Post-Millennial Rock Genres*|journal=]|url=http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.11.17.3/mto.11.17.3.osborn.html|date=October 2011|volume=17|issue=3|doi=10.30535/mto.17.3.4 |doi-access=free|hdl=1808/12360|hdl-access=free}}</ref> that spun off from ] in the 1980s.<ref name="AllMusicNR">{{cite web|title=Noise Rock|url=http://www.allmusic.com/style/noise-rock-ma0000004455|website=]|access-date=March 11, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Treblezine"/> Drawing on movements such as ], ], and ],{{sfn|Blush|2016|p=266}} artists indulge in extreme levels of distortion through the use of ]s and, less frequently, ]ation, either to provide percussive sounds or to contribute to the overall arrangement.<ref name="AllMusicNR"/> | '''Noise rock''' (sometimes called '''noise punk'''){{sfn|Felix|2010|p=172}} is a ]-oriented style of ]<ref name="Osborn2011">{{cite journal|last1=Osborn|first1=Brad|title=Understanding Through-Composition in Post-Rock, Math-Metal, and other Post-Millennial Rock Genres*|journal=]|url=http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.11.17.3/mto.11.17.3.osborn.html|date=October 2011|volume=17|issue=3|doi=10.30535/mto.17.3.4 |doi-access=free|hdl=1808/12360|hdl-access=free}}</ref> that spun off from ] in the 1980s.<ref name="AllMusicNR">{{cite web|title=Noise Rock|url=http://www.allmusic.com/style/noise-rock-ma0000004455|website=]|access-date=March 11, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Treblezine"/> Drawing on movements such as ], ], and ],{{sfn|Blush|2016|p=266}} artists indulge in extreme levels of distortion through the use of ]s and, less frequently, ]ation, either to provide percussive sounds or to contribute to the overall arrangement.<ref name="AllMusicNR"/> | ||
| Some groups are tied to song structures, such as ]. Although they are not representative of the entire genre, they helped popularize noise rock among ] audiences by incorporating melodies into their droning textures of sound, which set a template that numerous other groups followed.<ref name="AllMusicNR"/> Other early noise rock bands were ], ] and ]. | Some groups are tied to song structures, such as ]. Although they are not representative of the entire genre, they helped popularize noise rock among ] audiences by incorporating melodies into their droning textures of sound, which set a template that numerous other groups followed.<ref name="AllMusicNR"/> Other early noise rock bands were ], ] and ]. | ||
| == Characteristics == | == Characteristics == | ||
| Noise rock is a term that can refer to two distinct styles, each stemming from different influences and stylistic origins. In the late 1980s to early 1990s, music critic ] coined the term "pigfuck" as a way to describe artists like ], ], ] and ] who were more rooted in the ] and ] scenes and often associated with labels like ] as well as ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-02-12 |title=Noise rock: A how-to guide for the perplexed |url=https://toiletovhell.com/noise-rock-a-how-to-guide-for-the-perplexed/ |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=The Toilet Ov Hell |language=en-US}}</ref> The other strain of the genre originated in the late 1960s with more art-based influences, aligning itself with ] and ], pioneered by bands like ], ], ] and later ] and ]. Ultimately, the hardcore-influenced strain became the most dominant style of noise rock, with bands like ] blending the punk rooted origins of the genre with an art-damaged sound that included the use of alternate tunings and experimentation with drumsticks on guitar. Sonic Youth are the only noise rock band to achieve commercial success with the single "]" from their album "]" reaching #4 on the US charts.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-06-17 |title=Almost A God: Noise Rock In The Landscape |url=https://zacharylipez.ghost.io/almost-a-god-noise-rock-in-the-landscape/ |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=Abundant Living |language=en}}</ref> | |||
| Noise rock fuses ] to noise, usually with recognizable "rock" instrumentation, but with greater use of distortion and electronic effects, varying degrees of ], improvisation, and ]. One notable band of this genre is Sonic Youth, who took inspiration from the ] composers ] and ].<ref>, ''Kalvos-Damien'' website. (Accessed October 20, 2009).</ref> Sonic Youth's ] has stated: "Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it."<ref name="Sisario20042">{{cite web|url=http://www.spin.com/2004/12/art-noise/|title=The Art of Noise|date=December 2, 2004|website=]|last1=Sisario|first1=Ben}}</ref> | |||
| Subsequently, the ] scene further developed the sound of noise rock with bands like ] and ], emerging out of the scene as pivotal noise rock artists taking inspiration from no wave composers ] and ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rhys Chatham, Nonpop New Music Composer |url=http://kalvos.org/chatham.html |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=kalvos.org}}</ref> | |||
| ]'s ]<ref name="Sisario20042">{{cite web |last1=Sisario |first1=Ben |date=December 2, 2004 |title=The Art of Noise |url=http://www.spin.com/2004/12/art-noise/ |website=]}}</ref> stated: | |||
| "Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it." | |||
| Noise rock fuses ] to noise, usually with recognizable "rock" instrumentation, but with greater use of distortion and electronic effects, varying degrees of ], improvisation, and ]. | |||
| ==History== | ==History== | ||
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Experimental rock music mixed with noise This article is about the specific genre. For the general application of noise in rock music, see Noise in music § Rock music, and Noise music § Noise rock and no wave.
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| Other names | Noise punk |
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| Cultural origins | c. Mid-1960s to 1980s, New York City, United States |
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Noise rock (sometimes called noise punk) is a noise-oriented style of experimental rock that spun off from punk rock in the 1980s. Drawing on movements such as minimalism, industrial music, and hardcore, artists indulge in extreme levels of distortion through the use of electric guitars and, less frequently, electronic instrumentation, either to provide percussive sounds or to contribute to the overall arrangement.
Some groups are tied to song structures, such as Sonic Youth. Although they are not representative of the entire genre, they helped popularize noise rock among alternative rock audiences by incorporating melodies into their droning textures of sound, which set a template that numerous other groups followed. Other early noise rock bands were Big Black, Swans and the Jesus Lizard.
Characteristics
Noise rock is a term that can refer to two distinct styles, each stemming from different influences and stylistic origins. In the late 1980s to early 1990s, music critic Robert Christgau coined the term "pigfuck" as a way to describe artists like Big Black, the Jesus Lizard, Flipper and No Trend who were more rooted in the post-hardcore and post-punk scenes and often associated with labels like Amphetamine Reptile as well as Touch and Go. The other strain of the genre originated in the late 1960s with more art-based influences, aligning itself with avant-garde music and psychedelic rock, pioneered by bands like the Velvet Underground, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Red Krayola and later Fushitsusha and Boredoms. Ultimately, the hardcore-influenced strain became the most dominant style of noise rock, with bands like Sonic Youth blending the punk rooted origins of the genre with an art-damaged sound that included the use of alternate tunings and experimentation with drumsticks on guitar. Sonic Youth are the only noise rock band to achieve commercial success with the single "100%" from their album "Dirty" reaching #4 on the US charts.
Subsequently, the no wave scene further developed the sound of noise rock with bands like Sonic Youth and Swans, emerging out of the scene as pivotal noise rock artists taking inspiration from no wave composers Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham.
Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore stated:
"Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it."
Noise rock fuses rock to noise, usually with recognizable "rock" instrumentation, but with greater use of distortion and electronic effects, varying degrees of atonality, improvisation, and white noise.
History
Forerunners
While the music had been around for some time, the term "noise rock" was coined in the 1980s to describe an offshoot of punk groups with an increasingly abrasive approach. An archetypal album is the Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat (1968). Treblezine's Joe Gross credits White Light/White Heat as the "cult classic" with being the first noise rock album, accordingly, "perhaps it's an obvious starting point, but it's also the starting point. Period." Influenced by the free jazz of Ornette Coleman Reed stated that:
"I thought, you put Hubert Selby with Burroughs or Ginsberg lyrics against some rock with these kind of harmonic going in … wouldn't you have something?"
Les Rallizes Denudés quickly adopted the noise elements developed by the Velvet Underground in White Light/White Heat and The Velvet Underground & Nico by creating long improvisational songs based on feedback and the use of heavy distortion. The band moved toward an increasingly noise based sound in the 1970s, influencing a great number of artists in the Japanese noise and psychedelic rock scene.
The 1960s groups Red Krayola, Cromagnon, and Nihilist Spasm Band are other bands that were later assessed by some music critics and journalists to be early pioneers of what would become noise rock.
Origins
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Guitarist Steve Albini of noise rock band Big Black stated in 1984 in an article that "good noise is like orgasm". He commented: "Anybody can play notes. There's no trick. What is a trick and a good one is to make a guitar do things that don't sound like a guitar at all. The point here is stretching the boundaries." He said that Ron Asheton of the Stooges "made squealy death noise feedback" on "Iggy's monstruous songs". Albini also mentioned John McKay of Siouxsie and the Banshees, saying: "The Scream is notable for a couple of things: only now people are trying to copy it, and even now nobody understands how that guitar player got all that pointless noise to stick together as songs". Albini also said that Keith Levene of Public Image Ltd had this "ability to make an excruciating noise come out of his guitar".
In an article about noise rock, Spin wrote that a US compilation album titled No New York, released in 1978 on an independent label called "Antilles", was important as it documented the no wave New York scene. It featured several songs of Lydia Lunch's first band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks along with material of other groups Mars, DNA and James Chance and the Contortions.
Music
In the 1980s, Big Black, Sonic Youth and Swans were the leading figures of noise rock. Sonic Youth were the first noise rock band to get signed by a major label in 1990. The Jesus Lizard emerged in the early 1990s as a "leading noise rock band" in the American scene with their "willfully abrasive and atonal" style. Later notable bands of the noise scene were Liars, Season to Risk and Unsane.
While noise rock has never had any mainstream popularity, the raw, distorted and feedback-intensive sound of some noise rock bands had an influence on shoegaze, which enjoyed some popularity in the 90s, especially in the UK, and grunge, the most commercially successful. Among them are Wisconsin's Killdozer, Chicago's Big Black, and most notably San Francisco's Flipper, a band known for its slowed-down and murky "noise punk". The Butthole Surfers' mix of punk, heavy metal and noise rock was a major influence, particularly on the early work of Soundgarden.
Starting in the 1990s, noise punk developed mostly as a form of party music, with the band Lightning Bolt serving as key players in the 2000s noise punk scene in Providence, Rhode Island, although Brian Gibson, the band's bassist, is dismissive of the noise punk label, stating "I hate, hate, hate the category "noise-punk" I really don't like being labeled with two words that have so much baggage. It's gross."
See also
References
- ^ Gardner, Noel (March 30, 2016). "The Sound Of Impact: Noise Rock In 1986". The Quietus. Retrieved September 30, 2017.
- Felix 2010, p. 172.
- Osborn, Brad (October 2011). "Understanding Through-Composition in Post-Rock, Math-Metal, and other Post-Millennial Rock Genres*". Music Theory Online. 17 (3). doi:10.30535/mto.17.3.4. hdl:1808/12360.
- ^ "Noise Rock". AllMusic. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
- ^ Terich, Jeff (February 25, 2013). "Hold On To Your Genre : Noise Rock". Treblezine. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
- Blush 2016, p. 266.
- "Noise rock: A how-to guide for the perplexed". The Toilet Ov Hell. February 12, 2018. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
- "Almost A God: Noise Rock In The Landscape". Abundant Living. June 17, 2021. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
- "Rhys Chatham, Nonpop New Music Composer". kalvos.org. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
- Sisario, Ben (December 2, 2004). "The Art of Noise". Spin.
- ^ Gross, Joe (April 2007). "Essentials: Noise Rock". Spin. 23 (4).
- Shteamer, Hank (May 22, 2019). "Flashback: Ornette Coleman Sums Up Solitude on 'Lonely Woman'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved April 20, 2023.
- "Les Rallizes Dénudés: Japan's Noise Pioneers". January 21, 2020.
- "The Red Crayola, the Red Krayola - the Parable of Arable Land Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic". AllMusic."Cromagnon - Orgasm Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic". AllMusic."No Record - Record Collector Magazine". Retrieved May 4, 2023."The Nihilist Spasm Band invented noise rock in 1965". February 10, 2017.
- ^ Albini, Steve. (September - October 1984). "Tired of Ugy Fat ?". Matter (10).
- Escobedo Shepherd, Julianne (November 19, 2005). "Sonic Youth". Pitchfork. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
- Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Jesus Lizard – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved September 5, 2012.
- "Dig Me Out 505: Season to Risk - in a Perfect World".
- "Quietus Writers' Top 40 Noise Rock Tracks". The Quietus. March 29, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
- Azerrad, Michael (2001). Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991. Little, Brown. p. 439.
- Sisario, Ben (December 2, 2004). "The Art of Noise". Spin.
- Labaan. "Lightning Bolt: Interview with the Brians". Retrieved April 11, 2009.
Sources
- Blush, Steven (2016). New York Rock: From the Rise of The Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1-250-08361-6.
- Felix, Stanford (2010). The Complete Idiot's Guide Music Dictionary. DK Publishing. ISBN 978-1-101-19809-4.
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