Record

Pornoise/1kg

At a glance

Artist
Merzbow
Released
1984

In the issue

Japanoise: The Extreme Edge of Sound
For the obsessed · 1960-2000 · Members

This 1984 box set paired Merzbow's harsh noise with pornographic collage artwork, treating noise as a multimedia sensory assault rather than an audio-only experience.

The rest is in Japanoise: The Extreme Edge of Sound, a members' issue.

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Terms

Noise music
An experimental genre built from non-musical or non-traditional sound sources, including feedback, distortion, and found objects, that avoids melody and conventional structure in favor of texture and extremity.