Episode: 4692
Title: Noise Music Tutorial 2: Using Audacity to Make Noise
Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4692/hpr4692.mp3
Transcribed: 2026-07-31 16:16:53 (official HPR transcript)

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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4692, for 2026-07-28
Today's show is entitled, "Noise Music Tutorial 2: Using Audacity to Make Noise"
The host is TheDUDE and the duration is 00:08:48
The flag is Explicit, and the license is CC-BY-SA
The summary is "A tutorial and explainging different ways to make Noise music using audacity"
hello hacker public radio this is the dude here and I'm here with another
tutorial on make noise music again doing these so that way the reserve to
just not get drained and also like everybody's saying there needs to be you
know more people doing shows so this is being you know trying to get off my butt
to really do something plus also when it comes to like noise music
tutorials this is something I can pretty much do right off the cuff and kind of
low effort to really you know record a show so that being said we're gonna
talk about two different things that we can do on audacity to make noise
music this is more so about like a recording as opposed to like live
performance although you could do creative things for like a live performance with
just audacity and the way that we are gonna pretty much do this is two methods
one is the harsh noise wall method which comes from like a genre of noise
music called harsh noise wall which is harsh noise which is a shabjo
genre of noise music that basically is highly improvised and just basically
making just like really really loud distorted feedback and dense composition of
electronic stretches static you know abrasive sounds and and harsh noise
wall is that combined with the production technique known as the wall of sound
and so basically what you do to make that is you can open up audacity hit the
generate tab click on noise and you have a three different varieties of noise
that you could do and you can pick whatever duration of how long you want the
noise to be but you can go with white noise pink noise and brown noise or
brownish noise or brownie and I can't remember what it was off the cuff but
anyway you do that and then you just layer a whole bunch of different tracks of
that and voila you got harsh noise wall is that really like a troll genre of
music properly I mean like the genre according to Russell Williams described
that music jurors discuss a Russell Williams that it is a literal consistent
on flitching and enveloping wall of monolithic noise which is fricking true
because you're basically just getting a wall of static and the noise artist
familiar describes the genre as no ideas no change no development no entertainment
no remorse and yes I am reading this off a Wikipedia on that but to be honest
like that's a real good thing to describe it I've seen not live performances I've
seen videos of performances and it's basically people just pressing play on their
computer which is funny for like the first like five minutes but it's kind of boring
which is kind of an unfortunate thing you're just doing this just from audacity alone
which is kind of why I talked about like the previous about the because you could actually
really do something with that live and actually have like a performance
that being said you can actually do something with the next bet that would just like a music
concrete method and that is you basically take a few recordings of various sounds
and you cut them up and edit them and just put them into like a different sound collage
so you could do that with like power tools you could do that with like your neighbors that are
just like yelling at each other or you could do that with like you know traffic
construction sounds if you work at a factory you can do field recordings of the machine that
you're running and you can just add like reverb you can reverse the track you can
stretch the track and all these have different like things with like effect which has you know
compression you can add compression to it you can filter different filters delay reverb
distortion modulation let's see let's see some other things that try to see what's
different but you know you have the effect tools and you also like I said you have like
generate tools but you can actually actually do that you can actually combine both you can
really have like the generate noise static you'll add everything else later there and then also
edit the tracks as well now what you could cool thing that you can do and the hip-hop group
clipping has done this as like a way of like releasing a live album was that they literally
did it show and then they had contact microphones and like audio microphones throughout the entire venue
including like inside like bathroom sinks so that way you got like the sound of like the faucet
just like hitting the microphone and that was blended all together and you literally had like you
know that was like their live studio album and what I think you could probably do for like a set
is that while someone's going on before you you can like record the different noises that are
throughout like a concert venue and outside the venue and then you edit them in real time
and then you showcase that to the audience and I think that would be something that's kind of neat
that you could probably do during performance because what it comes to noise like you could
literally just like sit there press play or scream into the microphone and just like make like
you know various noise things you can basically do anything but it's really really nice what you
have like a performance art to it as opposed to just you know standing there and hitting play on a
a on a computer laptop but you know nothing against guys that do that it's just to me it's like
I'd personally would get bored doing it but that being said that's all that I have today a very
short episode here but I think I'm going to do more of these I might actually try to explore like
different genres a little and also maybe like talk about like different techniques that other
like noise musicians do and maybe more tutorials on that but I think I'm going to stay on the
topic of noise music with this because it's something that no one else is really doing at least on
hacker public radio there are a couple like noise music podcasts that have been around in the
past I'm not sure if there's any that are still going on but this seems to be something that I can
actually consistently go on so that being said I will see you guys later and don't forget to
contribute to me show please I all right later
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