Historically dominated by a narrow scene and aesthetic, noise music is being radically reshaped by a new generation of artists. Using extreme sonic intensity has become a strategy within a wide palette of styles. This panel moves beyond the genre's traditional tropes to explore why noise has become an urgent aesthetic strategy for navigating societal positionality and articulating experiences of dysphoria in response to tense times. By engaging with practitioners who perform at CTM, we examine how loudness, dissonance, and distortion function not merely as abrasion, but as a potent tool for reconfiguring the relationships between sound, power, and the body.

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