DATE COUNTRY

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1905 1915 1935 1945 1955 1965 1975 1985 1995 2005

ARGENTINA
Martin Irigoyen

AUSTRALIA
SPK
Severed Heads
John Watermann
Black Lung
Justice Yeldham
Cat Hope
Pimmon
Oren Ambarchi

AUSTRIA
Hermann Nitsch
Fennesz
Pomassl

BELGIUM
DDV
Imminent Starvation
Szkieve

CANADA
Nihilist Spasm Band
Michael Snow
Istvan Kantor
Venetian Snares
Knurl
The Rita
Tim Hecker
Iszoloscope

CHINA
“Noise can blow your head out. Noise is rage. Noise is ecstatic. Noise is Li Chin Sung/Dickson Dee
psychedelic. Noise is often on the edge between annoyance and bliss. Ronez
Noises are many things. Noise is a difficult concept to deal with.” Li Jianhong
Torturing Nurse
Orgasm Denial
The Aesthetics of Noise Torben Sangild
This project is an attempt to visually track patterns and relationships in noise music during the CZECHOSLOVAKIA
last century. Noise bands/artists were organized by location country and existence in years. Milan Knížák

Information pulled from allmusic, Discogs, and artist’s personal webpages and is up to date as
of October 2009.
ENGLAND
David Jackman
This project would not be made possible without the following individuals: Scratch Orchestra
Ronald Lessard/Emil Beaulieau, RRRecords, Anthony Mangicapra/Haar-Paar-Kraat, Hospital Productions, Nicola Red Square
Vinciguerra/Fecalove, the Tronik Chondritic Sound Forum, Joe Skinner, Michael Devine-Rosser, Julia Wargaski, Throbbing Gristle
Alice Koh, and Agnes Wartner. HIATUS

Neil Campbell
Nurse with Wound

Existence (in years) Artist/Band

Nocturnal Emissions
Test Dept
Justin Broadrick

Research and Design by Erik Carter Coil

Consumer Electronics
Muslimgauze
Napalm Death
The New Blockaders
Psychic TV
Ramleh
Peter Rehberg
Skullflower
Sutcliffe Jügend HIATUS
Con-Dom
POWER The Grey Wolves

ELECTRONICS Morphogenesis
Putrefier
Godflesh
An English noise movement that pushed the
boundries of electronic noise. Robin Rimbaud
Smell & Quim
Whitehouse
Zoviet France
Robin Storey
Dylan Nyoukis
Death Pact International
Culver
V/ Vm
Vibracathedral Orchestra
Russell Haswell
Filthy Turd
Fuck Buttons
Himei Koukotsu
Romance
Mutant Ape

FINLAND
Bizarre Uproar
Grunt
Pan Sonic
STROM.ec
Uusitalo
Gelsomina

FRANCE
Henri Chopin
Vivenza
Robin Crutchfield
Minamata
Entre Vifs
Vomir

GERMANY
Walter Ruttmann
Conrad Schnitzler
Gottfried Michael Koenig
Asmus Tietchens
Einstürzende Neubauten
P16.D4
Wolf Vostell
Genocide Organ
Stephan Mathieu
Marcus Schmickler
Hildegard Westerkamp
Alec Empire
Noisex
Anenzephalia
Atari Teenage Riot
P·A·L
Synapscape
Microstoria
Weena Morloch
Azoikum
Alva Noto
Raionbashi
Sektion B

GREECE
Family Battle Snake

ITALY
Francesco Balilla Pratella
Luigi Russolo

FUTURISM Antonio Russolo

Maurizio Bianchi
An artistic movement in Italy in the early Mauthausen Orchestra
1910s that focused on the aesthetics and Atrax Morgue
philosophy of the machine age. Bad Sector
Sigillum S
Dead Body Love
Fecalove

APAN
Masayuki Takayanagi
Yoko Ono
Keiji Haino
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Motoharu Yoshizawa
Fushitsusha
Merzbow
Aube
JAPANOISE Hijōkaidan
Incapacitants
Also known as ジャパノイズ, Japanoise was Hanatarash
the name for a highly active and influential KK Null
noise scene in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s. K2
Solmania
Dumb Type
The Gerogerigegege
Ruins
Boredoms
Masonna
Zeni Geva
Violent Onsen Geisha
Otomo Yoshihide
Contagious Orgasm
Killer Bug
Toshimaru Nakamura
Monde Bruits
M.S.B.R.
C.C.C.C.
Pain Jerk
Government Alpha
Melt-Banana
Nobukazu Takemura
Diesel Guitar
Sachiko M
Cracksteel
Facialmess
OOIOO
Acid Mothers Temple
Crack Fierce
Koji Asano
Xinlisupreme
Afrirampo

NETHERLANDS
Kapotte Muziek
C-drík

NEW ZEALAND
The Dead C

NORWAY
Lasse Marhaug
Zweizz

POLAND
Zbigniew Karkowski

RUSSIA
ZGA
F.R.U.I.T.S.
Linija Mass

SPAIN
Juan Hidalgo Codorniu
Esplendor Geométrico
Vagina Dentata Organ
Uusitalo

SWEDEN
Blood Ov Thee Christ
Brighter Death Now
Nordvargr
Stratvm Terror
Tarmvred
Sewer Election
Alfarmania

SWITZERLAND
John Armleder
Oscar Wiggli
Stendeck

U.S.A
John Cage
LaMonte Young

FLUXUS Henry Flynt

Tony Conrad
An artistic movement in the 1960s that Walter De Maria
blended different media and disciplines. Angus MacLise
The Residents
Maryanne Amacher
Rhys Chatham
Suicide

NO WAVE Smegma
John Zorn
An artistic movement that sprang from New If, Bwana
York in the mid-1970s. Mars
David Moss
Lou Reed
Boyd Rice
Teenage Jesus & the Jerks
HIATUS
Monte Cazazza
The Contortions
Controlled Bleeding
DNA
John Duncan
Big City Orchestra
Borbetomagus
The Haters
GX Jupitter-Larsen
Intrinsic Action
Christian Marclay
Negativland
Glenn Branca
Lee Ranaldo
Halaka
Ron Kuivila
Premature Ejaculation
HIATUS
Rat At Rat R
Scratch Acid
HIATUS
Sonic Youth
Z'EV
Big Black
Caroliner
Swans
Kenneth Atchley
Kim Cascone
Coup de Grâce
Joseph Nechvatal
Emil Beaulieau
Cock E.S.P.
Mr. Bungle
NON
Mike Patton
Crash Worship
PBK
Arcane Device
Rapeman
Thurston Moore
James Plotkin
Jim O'Rourke
Suckdog
Black Leather Jesus
Richard Ramirez
Xome
Macronympha
The Gas Chamber Orchestra
Irr.App.(Ext)
Man Is the Bastard
Rat Bastard
Harry Pussy
Panicsville
Skerik
Burning Star Core
Stephen O'Malley
RHY Yau
Slicing Grandpa
Taint
Stimbox

PROVIDENCE, RI Arab on Radar

Lightning Bolt
A prominent location for noise bands in the The Locust
1990s whose origins lied mainly in the Fort Nautical Almanac
Thunder warehouse space. Neptune
Skin Crime
Stephen Vitiello
Bloodyminded
Deathpile
Forcefield
Jamie Saft
Kevin Drumm
Mindflayer
Slogun
Wolf Eyes
Black Dice
Ed Kemper Trio
Guillermo Scott Herren
Landed
MOZ
Nic Endo
Pink and Brown
Converter
Edgey
Monotract
Prurient
John Wiese
XBXRX
Aaron Dilloway
Wilt
Liars
god is my copilot i Metalux
Pedestrian Deposit
Sightings
An Albatross
Growing
Hair Police
Immaculate:Grotesque
Magik Markers
Neon Hunk
Moe! Staiano
The White Mice
Whorebutcher
Yellow Swans
Excepter
Belong
Mouthus
Yellow Tears
Athletic Automaton
Made in Mexico
Clayton Counts
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer
Marc Broude