Nowhere is this more prevalent than in the genre of noise music, which eschews traditional musical structures and sounds for extreme distortion, howling feedback and violent volume. As practiced by artists like Merzbow, Pharmakon and Winterkälte, with a history that includes luminaries like Throbbing Gristle, SPK and Iannis Xenakis, noise music is an often brutal - some may say brutally beautiful - genre. Another unusual box is Enigma from SOMA Laboratory, the same team of mad scientists behind Lyra-8 and other unusual instruments. Painting with sound errorinstruments documentary paul tas - YouTube Watch OnAnother key element in noise music production is distortion. Winterkälte (Udo Wiessmann) (Image credit: Udo Wiessmann)Getting started with noise, or incorporating noise music ideas into your own tracks, doesn’t have to be complicated.