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I like to imagine white noise listeners would be like wine connoisseurs in your scenario.

"Mmmmmm, this one features a nice static base noise livivified by a hint of perlin noise."

Well, honestly there's a world of difference between the noise generated by Pete Swanson versus Merzbow for example. I can't handle Merzbow at all, but Pete Swanson's A&Ox0 I truly enjoy. For example, my most listend song over 2021 (>60 times) is Limited Space by an alias of Pete Swanson; Yellow Swans.

Than there's a track like Treetop Drive 3 from Deathprod that you truly notice when it starts, and when it ends. Other than that it is phenomal in drowning out everything on the other end.

Windy & Carl also make some great tracks, one of my favorites being Antarctica. I've noticed while sharing these tracks that it is a very personnel thing, so odds being that you share my favorites are remarkebly small, though I do find it a very interesting genre to explore and wonder about - what makes this good versus the other?

With less noise and a seeming one-off is Virginia Waveform from Pan-America, though quire more melodic already

I have a curated playlist of noise tracks that I very frequently get back to. Here's my playlist for anyone that is interested: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0srqN53JGNoqEN3vzoviJU

I expected a playlist of Rick astley songs. I guess there’s a whole form of „music“ I am not aware of.

This is fascinating. A whole genre I cannot appreciate at all and yet a genuine fan. Amazing.

I find it fascinating as well, especially how I can scroll through a recommended ambient playlist provided by Spotify and only pick 1-2 songs from the lot. And on further exploration I often think to myself - damn, this is some good ambient, let me add it to my list - only to find I've added it already. Kinda proving to me that it's not just circumstantial appreciation but something that stays for a while I guess.

> Limited Space by an alias of Pete Swanson; Yellow Swans

This is my first time listening to this "genre" of music and I love it!

Wow, this is the first time I see someone with musical tastes so close to mine. Like you said, a lot of this music feels very personal. So this feels weird now, like meeting a long lost twin. I could have made that playlist.

I was never really able to pinpoint what makes this music good to me. It has to be a mix of the actual sound, texture and repetitive nature of the drone.

Have you heard the collaboration between Fennesz and Jim O'Rourke? https://christianfenneszjimorourke.bandcamp.com/track/i-just...

Ohhh this must be marvelous and can't wait to check it out! I really appreciate this tune from Fennesz - Tom but have a really hard time with both the brevity of the tune, and finding similar styles.

https://open.spotify.com/track/2iHvSdltCRLlCVYAjRxLNj

On another note. Do you know the project The Dead Texan? its another alias from the artist behind Stars of the Lid and it's an album that just seems to get better with every listen.

Especially the Aegina Airlines is very evoking, though not directly up the alley of Noise I'd say.

https://xkcd.com/915/

"Yes yes, of course that's a nice balance, but I do rather prefer mine to have just a hint of oak leaf crackle, like those that remain at the end of the Fall"

It's only white noise if it's generated by the Sennheiser algorithm, otherwise it's just random static.

The Haters usually take a microphone connected to a distortion box and scrape it around the surface of a textured plastic suitcase. The result is clearly white noise and easily differentiated from the all too common pink noise one tends to hear nowadays.

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