NOISE (New Objectives In Sound Exploration)

A small Quebec music group headed by shawnm, founded about early 1995, that ranged from techno and ambient to industrial, hard rock and "classical" and had a group column in traxweekly (#42, #50 in the TOC). Sources: Shawn's interview (source: s-tw041-interview-shawnm), the interview of its Russian member vadimvs (source: s-tw050-interview-vadimvs) and Shawn's "Serial Composition" article, signed with the group's full name (source: s-tw046-serial-composition).

Facts#

• January 1996: "around for about a year, but isn't too well known"; members Benoit Charland (Benny), Harry, "Van Halen", danielm and SamH besides Shawn, none of them active on the Internet; releases at http://www.citenet.net/noise and on ftp.cdrom.com; "more concerned with music than image" (source: s-tw041-interview-shawnm).
• February 1996: VadimVS of Simbirsk, Russia, joined (source: s-tw050-interview-vadimvs).
• Shawn's complaint: "Most people would rather get a Necros tune than a NOISE tune" — the visibility problem of a small group in a big scene (source: s-tw041-interview-shawnm).

Related#

shawnm · vadimvs · traxweekly · serial-composition

Sources#

s-tw041-interview-shawnm · s-tw050-interview-vadimvs · s-tw046-serial-composition