Reddit reviews Noise Music: A History

Here are few I've read and would recommend:

• Noise/Music: A History
  
• Ocean of Sound
  
• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
  
• Talking Music: Conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Lauria Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers
  
• Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music
  
• Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass
  
• Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond
  
• Electronic and Experimental Music: A History of a New Sound

https://www.amazon.com/Noise-Music-History-Paul-Hegarty/dp/0826417272

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This book really gets into your question. Some of what you are referring to is basically audio S&M if that makes any sense as to why people enjoy it. Part of "noise" is also cultural so it can get interesting from that viewpoint. Really cool stuff.

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