By "noise" I mean stuff that's not melodic and has no beats and little (if any) conventional percussion, with sounds that are often either unpitched, highly distorted, or very dissonant. Something like these things that I made a while back:

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I kind of enjoy playing with this stuff because you're not constrained by what's immediately pleasing to the ear. The goal becomes simply to arrange and transform different timbres in some interesting way.

It's not the kind of thing I could listen to all day, but I find that I have an appetite for it sometimes. Merzbow is one of the most well-known artists working in the "noise" genre.

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I got started off in power noise when I first started producing (I still make it occasionally); however, power noise isn't without some kind of beat.

Not really sure what to say lol.

Sounds like someone has 40fx hooked up to Massives noise and is playing with knobs for 2 1/2mins.

Its interesting, I think it would be more interesting if you shaped it into a groove of some sort.

Yeah, these are kind of rudimentary compared to what I'm working on now.

Check my sig for a newer noise track.

I might try to make some noisy beats (or beaty noise) soon.

I'm starting to get interested in buying old or damaged (but still working) equipment to explore more twisted sounds.

Ever considered building your own synth to make wierd shit. If you have basic soldering skills you can but the kits online and fit them into anything i seen a pic of one being fitted into an old phone it looked well good. Theramins are wierd synths too get them on ebay cheap. Also if you want interesting wierd ass sounds do a search on ebay for circuit bent synths.

Childrens toys modifyed to shit by amature synth builders and twisted inside out. i think one of the best is the alphabet one

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Processing a highly structured and complex pattern of sensory input as a unified percept of "music" is probably one of the most elaborate features of the human brain.....understanding how music is perceived and how it may elicit intense sensations is far from being understood.

I don't have any soldering skills, although I guess I could try to learn. I might search for circuit-bent synths on EBay.

On the software front, I got Max/MSP recently, which should open up some new possibilities for weird sounds.

i would love to get into max but havent got the money yet!

although i did buy the csound book a good read it is.

Yeah, CSound is pretty cool. I don't have the patience for it most of the time, but I'm going to try to get into it more now that I'm diving into the exploration of crazy sounds.

Cool

Your tracks are .. um.. noise, but not in a bad sense. Sometimes, I'm like 'fuck all musical conventions' ... Then I mess around with synths, samples and tons of FX to explore new territories in sound. Its very refreshing to do that because you are not restricted to any production laws. You dont have a target when making noise... I guess most people are making noise just for themselves, because experimental Noise is something very few listeners enjoy..

about your tunes, Track 1 gave me some shivers, while number 2 was too experimental for my taste.

For listening, I prefer if it has some rythm, atmosphere, or some musical content. Especially atmospheric noise thats kinda like Dark Ambient is fucking creepy. When I was stoned and alone, I used to load up one of those super crazy reaktor ensembles, there was one thats called Ezerbee. It was creeping the shit out of me. And all I did was pressing the randomizer button

I just feel like making some noise in Ezerbee again. This thing sounds so UNREAL, its more than awesome. You should really check it out if you can get your hands on Reaktor

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Thanks for the comments. I'd be grateful if you could check out the tracks in my sig as well and give them brief reviews. The ones I posted in the opening post here are kind of old, and I kind of took a long break from sound experimentation and noise to explore more melodic genres for a while. But now it looks I'm back in noise again with some improved production skills...



You'd probably like "Buried Life" best, as it's more atmospheric and a little more coherent, or at least it seems that way to me. I'm thinking of using it as the starter piece for a continuous album of some kind, with the crowd noise continuing on to start off the next track. We'll see, though.

Anyway, enough self-whoring on my part...

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I just feel like making some noise in Ezerbee again. This thing sounds so UNREAL, its more than awesome.

Hmm, I'll check that out. Thanks.