Noise

Noise,
Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

~ Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary  (1911) ~ 

Noise,
Noise is the primitive and collective consciousness of music.
... If "noise" means uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me...

 ~ Masami Akita, aka Merzbow , interview with Oskari Mertalo (twentieth century) ~