Guide Where to Start With Noise

Noise doesn't hold still long enough to have one history. Here's a working map of the branches anyway — Japanoise, power electronics, wall noise, cut-up, drone, and the rest — with a place to start in each.

Artist Profile / Free Jazz, Noise Borbeto magus

Two saxophones pressed bell to bell and an electric guitar, going since 1979. Borbetomagus got to total noise from inside free jazz, years before most of the people now credited with it.

faithless aka 222-still-born