A very good question.
I have noticed in my own experiences that when I introduce a new type of music to a friend who hasn’t yet heard it, but has an already established taste for music, the pleasure I find in it is unfounded and essentially no judgement is made about the music.
I’m tempted to believe that a large percent of our standards by which we measure good music are sort of conditioned, which is to say, we don’t decide to like what we like…we are subtlely over-come by it, and claim post hoc that we like it.
Another thing to keep in mind is the utility of music and what people do while its playing. A musician is involved with music at a deeper level than a normal consumer, and therefore I think there is some indication that a natural disposition, or tendency, to enjoy more complex music is inherent. A consumer, on the other hand, is not subjected to the music’s composition, isn’t really involved, and experiences the simpler side of the music; its sound and not its technical realities.
I could never listen to the radio for longer than five minutes. Main-stream rock/pop/rap.etc, for me, is an insult to musical integrity and largely a product of no artistic value. Beside the fact of its simplicity and overwhelming regularity and repetition, the image presented by the “artists” are just as shallow as the sound itself, if not more. Mediocrity has overtaken this medium of art and music is, I’m sorry, dead.
I don’t know what “noise” music is, mind you, but I would assume that its just some new promotional device for making money by recording a bunch of shit and selling it to mindless consumers.
Am I right or am I right?
If Noise is anything like Industrial or Techno or Rave or anything like that, then please, turn down your amps for the sake of humanity.