Noise (disambiguation)
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Noise is a variety of sound, usually meaning any unwanted sound.
Noise may also refer to:
Science and technology
- Noise (spectral phenomenon), referring to many types of random or unwanted signals, including acoustic noise
- Noise (economic), in a theory of pricing developed by Fischer Black
- Communication noise, factors that impair human-to-human communication
- Internet background noise, data packets addressed to IP addresses or ports where there is no device to receive them
- Meta noise, irrelevant metadata in computer files
- Noise trader, in financial research, a stock trader that makes random decisions
- Noise pollution, excessive sound
- Noise control
- Environmental noise
- Ambient noise level
Arts and entertainment
Film and television
- Noise (2005 film), a Canadian short film directed by Greg Spottiswood
- Noise (2007 American film), a comedy-drama written and directed by Henry Bean
- Noise (2007 Australian film), a drama written and directed by Matthew Saville
- Noise (programming block), a Fuji TV late-night anime programming block
- The Noise (TV series), a 1996 magazine show on ITV
- The Noise (game show), on Universal Kids
- New York Noise, an indie rock music video TV program by NYCTV, 2003–2009
Journalism and literature
- Noise: The Political Economy of Music, a 1977 nonfiction book by Jacques Attali
- The Noise, a monthly newspaper in Northern Arizona (1993–2017)
- NOiSE, a 2000 manga by Tsutomu Nihei
- Noise (book), a 2006 popular science book by Bart Kosko
- Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, a 2021 nonfiction book by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass Sunstein
Music
- Noise in music, the occurrence of noise(s) in music, including noise reduction and uses in instrument tone, in composition and in performance
- String noise, made by guitar players sliding the fingers over the strings
Genres
- Noise music, a noise-based aesthetic in experimental music and sound art
- Power noise, a derivative of noise music
- Noise pop, an alternative rock genre developed in the UK in the mid-1980s
- Noise rock, a style of rock music prominent in the 1980s
Musical artists
- The Noise (band), a Puerto Rican musical collective
- The Noise (string quartet), an experimental string quartet from Sydney, Australia
- Noise, an American band including Mika Horiuchi
Musical recordings
- Noise (Archive album), 2004
- Noise (Boris album), 2014
- NOISE (compilation album), released by Adult Swim, 2016
- The Noise (album), by Peter Hamill, 1993
- Le Noise, an album by Neil Young, 2010
- Noise, an album by DecembeRadio, 2005
- "Noise" (Kenny Chesney song), 2016
- "Noise" (Nightwish song), 2020
- Noises (song), a 2018 song by Pale Waves
Other uses in music
- Noise Pop Festival, an indie rock festival started 1993 in San Francisco
- Noise Records, a German record label founded in 1983
Other uses in arts and entertainment
- Noise (video game company), a second-party video game developer for Nintendo
Sport
- Knoxville Noise, a basketball franchise in Knoxville, Tennessee
- Nashville Noise, a basketball franchise in Nashville, Tennessee
Other uses
- Noise (Goidelic mythology) or Naoise, a figure in Irish mythology
- The Noises, an island group in northern New Zealand
See also
- White noise (disambiguation)
- The Noise Company, an American record label
- Noize MC (born 1985), Russian rapper
- All pages with titles containing noise