Noise Matters

Everyone knows what noise is. Or do they? Can we in fact say that one man''s noise is another teenager''s music? Is noise in fact only an auditory phenomenon or does it extend far beyond this realm? If our common definitions of noise are necessarily subjective and noise is not just unpleasant sound, then it merits a closer look (or listen).

Greg Hainge sets out to define noise in this way, to find...