Noise

Noise music is an avant-garde genre that prioritizes dissonance, feedback, and unstructured sonic chaos over conventional melody, harmony, or rhythm, creating immersive, often abrasive soundscapes through experimental sound manipulation.

Origin: Emerged in the USA and Japan in the 1960s-1970s, influenced by Fluxus performance art, industrial music, and early electronic experiments.

Era: 1960s to present