Noise (disambiguation)

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 (signal processing)
  • Noise (electronics)
• 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 (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 (book), a 2006 popular science book by Bart Kosko
• NOiSE, a manga by Tsutomu Nihei
• The Noise, a monthly newspaper in Northern Arizona
• Noise: The Political Economy of Music, a 1977 nonfiction book by Jacques Attali

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
  • Japanese noise rock

Musical artists

• The Noise (band), a Puerto Rican musical collective
• The Noise (string quartet), an experimental string quartet from Sydney, Australia

Musical recordings

• The Noise (album), a 1993 album by English singer Peter Hamill
• Noise (Archive album), a 2004 album by the English band Archive
• Noise, a 2005 album by DecembeRadio
• Le Noise, a 2010 album by Canadian musician Neil Young
• "Noise" (song), a 2016 song by Kenny Chesney
• "Noise" (Nightwish song), a song from Nightwish's 2020 album, Human. :II: Nature.

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 (company), a second-party video game developer for Nintendo

Sport

• Knoxville Noise, a basketball franchise in Knoxville, TN
• Nashville Noise, a basketball franchise in Nashville, TN

Other uses

• Noise (Goidelic mythology) or Naoise, a figure in Irish mythology
• The Noises, a set of privately owned islands northeast of Rakino Island, New Zealand
• Noise (wearables company), an Indian company that produces earphones and smart watches

See also

• White noise (disambiguation)
• The Noise Company, an American record label
• All pages with titles containing noise