Noise is probably the other extreme of music and is probably the final destination before maybe a revival happens. think about it, as we progress in the complexity of music through listening, we get more accustomed to say, more complex sounds, structures or arrangements or just atonality which may denote something complex for us to have understood when we were young.
its like light and day. like life and death. anything that is born also dies. birth is one extreme and death is the opposite. life is the journey from here to there. so maybe, music as such is traveling from here to there. the ultimate end might be absolute atonal dissonance. even pop music has come to embracing this phenomenon of noise: from Punk rock to the more experimental post punk and avant garde groups to pioneering no wave movement which led to the noise rock and noise pop sub genres with bands such as Public Image Ltd, Sonic Youth, Jesus and the Mary Chain spearheading the movement. now there is a mixed bag called alternative rock which sometimes uses those past influences here and there. bands like Einsturzende Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle and others who embody industrial create such brilliant soundscapes of dissonance.
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