Ιn common use the word noise means unwanted sound or noise pollution.
Noise music is a sub-genre of experimental music constructed from noise as opposed to recognisable sound or pitches. “Noise” music is regarded by some as a contradiction in terms, because “noise” is generally defined as unwanted and undesigned or unintentional sound and music as the opposite. However, “noise” in a more general sense refers to any extremely loud or discordant sound, and that these sounds are often the basis of noise music.
Extreme music is categorised as music that contains one or more elements that are abhorrent to the average listener (in some cases leading to debates as to whether certain artists’ work can even be described as music). These may include: unusual tempos (very fast or very slow), unusual quantities of distortion or white noise, excessive volume, highly obscene, violent or nonsensical lyrics (often in combination with an unusual vocal style, such as screams, barks, growls or heavy glitch distortion), dissonant or atonal scales and unusual, often jazz-based time signatures, very rapid and jarring changes of tempo or even genre, highly unusual song structures and lengths etc., often in combination with each other.
Noise rock is a broadly defined musical genre that developed in the 1980s as an experimental outgrowth of punk rock. Fusing punk rock’s attitude with the atonal noise and unconventional song structures of early industrial and noise music, the noise rock introduced a new kind of avant-garde music to the alternative rock landscape. The style is sometimes referred to as “noisecore”, though this term can also refer to a variety of fast, distorted hardcore techno music and grindcore.Some groups are more concerned than others about integrating their sonic explorations into song structures; pioneers Sonic Youth helped bring noise-rock to a wider alternative-rock audience when they began to incorporate melody into their droning sheets of sound
The post-rock sound incorporates a wide variety of musical genres, such as ambient, jazz, electronica, experimental, and sometimes even rock. The post-rock approach to music, such as the emphasis on instrumental work and sonic texture, is similar to the earlier New Age movement, which came out of the modern folk tradition. Post-rock is characterized by repetition of musical motifs and subtle changes, with an extremely wide range of dynamics. Most often, post-rock songs are lengthy and instrumental, containing repetitive build-ups of timbre, dynamics and texture. Guitar timbres are usually smooth, often using delay and reverb. Harmonically, there is an emphasis on consonance, though by no means is there a definitive rule of thumb. Post-rock was hypnotic and often droning
Post-metal is a closely related to the larger and older genre that is art metal, as post-metal bands often name art metal groups as influences.The simplest way to define post-metal is as a mix of post-rock and metal. This indicates the interplay of light and dark – taking the distorted guitars and guttural vocals of metal and post-hardcore and setting that against the clean instrumentalism of post-rock. Pieces tend to be at a slow- to mid-tempo, focussing on chord changes and barrages of sound rather than lead guitar riffing and shredding, and usually eschewing guitar solos. Post-metal tends not to feature the discordance present in a lot of modern hardcore and metal;
Post-hardcore, as a musical genre, is marked by its precise rhythms and loud guitar-based instrumentation accompanied by vocal performances that are often sung as whispers or screams. The genre has developed a unique balance of dissonance and melody, in part channeling the loud and fast hardcore ethos into more measured, subtle forms of tension and release. It shares with its hardcore roots an intensity and social awareness as well as a DIY ethic
NoisePunk started off around the mid 80s as Noise Rock. Towards the 90s Grindcore, Deathcore and Punkcore had become popular names in the alternative underground scene. By the late 90s more and more Noisecore bands had come about. It was more of a fasion, rather than a style of music or expression. “Xcore” was to be put in every sentance and any band with a breakdown was classed as Hardcore. Every style became custom to this trend Funkcore, Metalcore, Mathcore and it became too ridiculas to ignore for much longer. The style had become so torn away from where it came from it needed a new direction. NoisePunk was born, the original “Fuck You” Punk attitude had come back standing against the fasion that had taken over it’s once political awareness. Thrown together ruffly with Noise left over from the original noise makers The Melvins. Of course it is still hard to find a band that fits nicely under the term NoisePunk and I can’t imagine that a true band of this style would want to be labled at all.
No Wave was a short-lived but influential music and art scene that thrived briefly in New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The term No Wave is in part satiric wordplay rejecting the commercial elements of the then-popular New Wave genre. The term also highlights the music’s experimental nature: No Wave music belonged to no fixed style or genre.
Sludge metal is a form of heavy metal music that is generally regarded as a fusion between doom metal and hardcore punk.Guitars and bass are heavily distorted and often use large amounts of feedback to give a ‘dirty’ atmosphere. There is often an absence of guitar solos in sludge metal. Drums are rooted in hardcore, with many hardcore beats and rhythms being present in the majority of sludge bands. Vocals are shouted as in hardcore, and lyrics are generally blue-collar in nature, reflecting on society, generally in a cynical or downtrodden manner.
Doom metal is a form of heavy metal that emerged as a recognized genre of metal in the mid-1980s. Doom metal is slow and heavy, with a pessimistic nature and often with intentions to evoke an atmosphere of darkness, despair and misery.
Death Metal.Commonly recognized characteristics include usually violent or dark lyrics which focus on death as a nihilistic metaphor (although lately more philosophy-based lyrics, such as those of later Death have become popular as well), chromatic progressions and a narrative or “story telling” song structure such that there is not a verse-chorus cycle as much as an ongoing development of themes and motifs. It is usually identified by downtuned rhythm guitars, fast percussion, and dynamic intensity. “Blast beats” are frequently used to add to the ferocity of the modern music. The vocals are commonly low gurgles named death grunt, growl, or death growl. This kind of vocalising is distorted by use of the throat and guts, unlike traditional singing techniques which discourages this technique. Some people consider it similar to the overtone style of singing.
Drone music, also known as drone-based music, drone ambient or ambient drone, dronescape or dronology, and sometimes simply as drone, is a musical style that emphasizes the use of sustained sounds, notes, or tones-clusters – called drones. It is typically characterized by lengthy audio programs with relatively slight harmonic variations throughout each piece compared to other musics.
Drum and bass began as an offshoot of the United Kingdom breakbeat hardcore and rave scene of the late 1980s; and over the first decade of its existence there have been many permutations in its style, incorporating elements from dancehall, electro, funk, hiphop, house, jazz, metal, pop, reggae, rock, techno and trance. Drum and bass is usually between 160-180 BPM, in contrast to other forms of breakbeat such as nu skool breaks which maintain a slower pace at around 130-140 BPM. A general upward trend in tempo has been observed during the evolution of drum and bass. The earliest old skool rave was around 125 / 135 bpm in 1989 / 1991, early (late 1992 – 1993) jungle / breakbeat hardcore was around 155-165 BPM. Since around 1996, drum’n'bass tempos have predominantly stayed in the 173 to 180 range. Recently some producers have started to once again produce tracks with slower tempos (i.e. in the 150’s and 160’s), but the mid-170 tempo is still the hallmark of the drum and bass sound.
The post-punk revival is a movement in modern rock music consisting of Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Goth Rock, and Electronic bands that draw from the conventions of the original Post-Punk sound of the early 1980s, as well as the early 90’s Britpop, 80’s New Wave and 60’s Garage rock movements. Yet is also an extension of and reaction to the Pop-punk, and Alternative Rock music of the 1990s. The movement began and is most prominent in English speaking countries such as the US, the UK, and various Mainland European countries, and has been especially tied to the New York City and London music scenes.The use of the term “post-punk” to describe two distinct waves of rock music, despite their many differences, has stuck. It is legitimized not only by the broad consensus that has emerged to call the groups listed here post-punk but also by the historical positions of each movement, relative to the dominant punk rock music of their respective eras. The first form of post-punk was seen as a response to late-1970s punk rock; the twenty-first century variant as a response to 1990s punk rock.
Grindcore, often shortened to grind, is an evolution of hardcore punk, most commonly associated with death metal and crust punk. Grindcore is characterized by heavily distorted, down-tuned guitars, blastbeats, hardcore punk and crossover thrash influenced riffing, short songs, and a vocal style consisting of growls and higher-pitched vocals, often similar to those found in death metal and black metal. Lyrical concepts range from social and political issues to gore and horror to humor.
Screamo is a musical genre which evolved from emo, post-hardcore, more specifically hardcore emo in the early 1990s. Characteristic of the genre are hardcore screaming vocals, harmonized guitars, and fast-paced riffs. Breakdowns in screamo songs are often slower and more melodic than in other genres, less of a “beatdown” and more of an opportunity for introspection (and rest for the musicians). Other than that, it is fairly hard to classify (particularly since the rule about screaming vocals is bent fairly often).
Black metal started in the early 1980s with bands such as Bathory, Sodom, Mayhem, Mercyful Fate, and Hellhammer/Celtic Frost; and with asthetic and lyrical influences from Venom. These bands were Thrash metal bands that formed the prototype for the later second generation of black metal. The second wave of black metal, an essentially Scandinavian movement, started in the late 1980s and early 1990s, primarily in Norway. Black metal has gathered intense criticism from many sectors of society, for its brutal aesthetic, its misanthropic spirit, and the extreme ideology displayed by some musicians working in the National Socialist Black Metal subgenre. However, at the same time it experienced a meteoric rise in popularity among metal fans during the 1990s.
Shoegaze, distortion(aka “fuzzbox”), droning riffs and a wall of sound from noisy guitars. Typically, two distorted rhythm guitars are played together and give an amorphous quality to the sound. Although lead guitar riffs were often present, they were not the central focus of most shoegazing songs.
Krautrock is an eclectic and often very original mix of Anglo-American post-psychedelic jamming and moody progressive rock mixed with ideas from contemporary experimental classical music
Techno features an abundance of percussive, synthetic sounds, studio effects used as principal instrumentation, and, usually, a regular, 4/4 beat usually in the 130–140 bpm range—sometimes faster, but rarely slower. Some techno compositions have strong melodies and bass lines, but these features are not as essential to techno as they are to other dance genres, and it is not uncommon for techno compositions to deemphasize or omit them.
Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles – including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise.
Dark ambient is a general term for any kind of ambient music with a “dark” or dissonant feel, but often involves extensive use of digital reverb to create vast sonic spaces for frightening, bottom-heavy sounds such as deep drones, gloomy male chorus, echoing thunder, and distant artillery. It has a relentlessly gothic feel. Robert Rich’s collaboration with Lustmord on Stalker epitomizes this sub-genre. Related styles include ambient industrial and isolationist ambient.
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ουσ. θόρυβος, κρότος, φασαρία, κν. (ν) ταβατούρι, σαματάς: I can’t stand the noise δεν αντέχω το θόρυβο § noise pollution ηχορρύπανση § noise fit to wake the dead ιδ. ορυμαγδός, τρομερός θόρυβος # μτφ. πάταγος, κν. πατατράκ, ντόρος: make a noise in the world κάνω αίσθηση, κάνω ντόρο, υποχρεώνω τους πάντες να μιλούν για μένα # τεχνολ. 1. ηλεκτρονικά παράσιτα: circuit / line noise παρασιτικοί θόρυβοι κυκλώματος ή αγωγών > 2. ανεπιθύμητη μεταβολή ή παρουσία ηλεκτρονικού σήματος (Η/Υ) # ιδ. “άσχετο” ή “αχχρηστο” υλικό βιβλιογραφικής έρευνας # (πληθ.) συμβατικά λόγια, φληναφήματα # ΦΡ. background noise θόρυβοι του περιβάλλοντος, παρασιτικοί θόρυβοι § big noise, a ιδ. προσωπικότητα, τρανός, μεγαλουσιάνος § buzzing noise (συνεχής) βόμβος § hold your noise! σιωπή! σκάσε! § make a noise about.. παραπονούμαι θορυβωδώς για..
