Censorship Through Noise is a music project named after a troubling process people throughout the world are experiencing.
Authoritarian leaders the world over have resorted to more than incriminating dissent outright, they also use social media and other channels to gum up the gears and voices of democracy by flooding and drowning them out. Viewers are bombarded by bots, trolls, and kooks with conspiracy theories, misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation to add static and signals meant to confuse, divide, and conquer, slowing down or stopping progressive and radical volition to challenge Establishments and elites.
Besides Rump’s first few weeks in office during his second term trying to push Project 2025 ahead being a case-study in censorship through noise, the resources below explore the phenomenon:
- Noise is the new censorship- How journalism got disinformation wrong
- Our Newest Obstacle: “Censorship Through Noise”
- The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President
- The Infodemic: How Censorship and Lies Made the World Sicker and Less Free
- This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
The US’s Long and Sordid History of Persecuting Journalists
What
CT Noise is an experimental abstract lo-fi trip hop noise kind of thing that uses Ableton, Push, V-Drums, an SPD-SX, Midi Fighters, a dub siren, and…
CTN is 1/2 of Ham Radio Ensemble 20 years later. CT Noise is Bloop Bleep meets Antipop Consortium and Trans Am. They drive backwards on a one way street to a trailhead so they can bushwhack looking for the The Coup, Public Enemy, Greydon Square, and others…
Who
Censorship Through Noise is one person at the moment.
Why
This website is a means to bypass platforms of various kinds so people can download music for free or pay as they wish, a direct-to-consumer platform without a platform. There are no ambitions for Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon or other platforms.
How
To play the music you need a web browser or an mp3 or wav player like iTunes, or MS Media Player. Pay nothing or whatever you like.
The first 3 EPs have MP3 and WAV zip files for download at their respective web pages. The remainder of the current catalog will be uploaded at a later date.
Whence
Only a few years into The Nixon Years I began an electronic venture called Ham Radio Ensemble with one other person. We wanted to explore abstract-like hip hop. I wanted an outlet other than punk drumming. Our influences at the time were some Project Blowed acts, the Anticon roster, Muslimgauze, Pelding, DJ Vadim,and Antipop Consortium among others. Censorship Through Noise plans to continue the HRE and TNY ethos. For now the first set of EPs do not have vocal samples except an occasional vocoder or voice noise one-shot.
Project 2025 and its bedfellow, Yarvin’s Butterfly Revolution, is here. David Ellerman’s work on charter cities and democracy in general are instructive for what issues surround the roadmaps Christian Nationalists, tech giants, and other billionaires wish to implement.