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Noise music became therapy for my tinnitus and helped me make music again
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Noise music became therapy for my tinnitus and helped me make music again

Hey everyone.

For a long time I went through a pretty dark period in my life. I had serious health issues, and the medication ended up causing tinnitus.

That whole experience completely knocked me out of balance, and I stopped making music for several years.

The longer I stayed away from it, the harder it became to come back. At some point even opening a DAW felt overwhelming.

I’ve always had a deep appreciation for noise music, but it was the genre that helped me start creating again.

The constant sound helps distract me from the ringing, and the genre itself gave me a way to make music without feeling trapped by structure, melodies, arrangements or the usual boundaries of conventional music.

This project is basically my way back into making art again.

If anyone wants to listen and give honest feedback, I’d genuinely appreciate it.

Thanks for reading 🖤

https://yugamishinsei.bandcamp.com/

u/Beautiful_Ad6426 — 6 days ago
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New Merzbow & Pedro Vian collab - Bardo Thödol

On 7 July, Modern Obscure Music is releasing the 3rd collaboration between Merzbow and Pedro Vian - who, imho, work very well together. The album will be called Bardo Thödol and is their 3rd collab in 3 years time. One full track can be streamed via Merzbow's Bandcamp: https://merzbow.bandcamp.com/album/bardo-thodol

A snippet of the second track can be streamed here: https://wordandsound.net/release/167718-MOM073-Merzbow--Vian-Bardo-Thdol

For those who haven't heard the first two collabs yet:

A Wheel on Mani (2025): https://merzbow.bandcamp.com/album/a-wheel-on-mani

Inside Richard Serra Scultures (2024): https://merzbow.bandcamp.com/album/inside-richard-serra-sculptures

Info about the upcoming album taken from Merzbow's Bandcamp:

In their third collaboration, the shared project between Merzbow and Pedro Vian shifts towards less confrontational and more introspective terrain. Bardo Thödol, released as an LP, draws on The Tibetan Book of the Dead not so much as an explicit narrative framework but as a conceptual resonance: a passage, a suspension between states.

Where Inside Richard Serra Sculptures and The Wheel of Mani foregrounded a relatively defined dialectic between Vian’s environmental restraint and Masami Akita’s impulsive, textural excess, that friction here appears to dissolve in favour of a more homogeneous mass. Noise, far from its most abrasive edge, is reconfigured as a continuous field — dense yet permeable.

Within this flow, melodic structures emerge without assertion, surfacing almost incidentally as by-products of the accumulation of frequencies itself. The result is less a reconciliation of languages than a blurring of their boundaries: a space in which intensity is internalised and the radical gesture folds into a more sustained, contemplative mode of listening.

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u/CvdVeen — 11 days ago