Information about Noise

NOiSE!
Musubi on top of early silicon creatures
Demographic	Seinen
Genre	Sci-fi
Manga: [1]
Authored by	Tsutomu Nihei
Publisher	Kodansha
Other publishers: Glénat Egmont Manga & Anime
Serialized in	Afternoon
Original run	2001 – 2001
No. of volumes	1 (complete)
Related works
Blame!, Net Sphere Engineer, Biomega

NOiSE is a one volume manga created by Tsutomu Nihei as a prequel to his acclaimed ten-volume work, Blame!.

It offers some rather sketchy information concerning the Megastructure's origins and initial size, as well as the origins of Silicon life. The book also include an early Blame! (Spelled without the exclamation mark) story that debuted in 1995.

Plot

Musubi Susono is sent to investigate cases of children being kidnapped. She and her partner Clawsa investigate one of the possible sites, Clawsa (though some translations give Krowzer) is immediately killed by a unknown force. Musubi tracks down his killer, who addresses himself as "The Order", he then unleashes an early Silicon Creature on her, she quickly dispatches it with an energy blade weapon which bears resemblance to the Gravitational Beam Emitter. Later she continues to find "The Order" and the secrets of the Netsphere.

Early Blame

The story portrays Killy as police officer in a post-apocalyptic subterranean city thats thriving with activity, who's investigating the brutal murder of a gang of drug dealers. We are introduced to a heavily toned down Gravitational Beam Emitter as well as other elements that will take vastly different forms in the later publication (for example, Silicon life). It's inspiring to observe this early work of Tsutomu Nihei's and consider the artistic leap he makes in the three years between the publication of this story and BLAME!

References

External links

• Noise manga review at Mangareviewer.com

Tsutomu Nihei
Works
Blame! | NOiSE | Biomega | Net Sphere Engineer | Abara | Digimortal
BLAME! characters and structures
Killy| Cibo | Sanakan | Graviton Beam Emitter | Net Terminal Genes |

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This article is about noise as in sound. For other uses, see Noise (disambiguation).

In common use the word noise means unwanted sound or noise pollution. In electronics noise can refer to the electronic signal corresponding to acoustic noise (in an audio system) or the electronic signal corresponding to the (visual) noise commonly seen as 'snow' on a degraded television or video image. In signal processing or computing it can be considered data without meaning; that is, data that is not being used to transmit a signal, but is simply produced as an unwanted by-product of other activities. In Information Theory, however, noise is still considered to be information. In a broader sense, film grain or even advertisements in web pages can be considered noise.

Noise can block, distort, or change the meaning of a message in both human and electronic communication.

In many of these areas, the special case of thermal noise arises, which sets a fundamental lower limit to what can be measured or signaled and is related to basic physical processes at the molecular level described by well known simple formulae.

Acoustic noise

When speaking of noise in relation to sound, what is commonly meant is meaningless sound of greater than usual volume. Thus, a loud activity may be referred to as noisy. However, conversations of other people may be called noise for people not involved in any of them, and noise can be any unwanted sound such as the noise of aircraft, neighbours playing loud music, or road sounds spoiling the quiet of the countryside.

For film sound theorists and practitioners at the advent of talkies c.1928/1929, noise was non-speech sound or natural sound and for many of them noise (especially asynchronous use with image) was desired over the evils of dialogue synchronized to moving image. The director and critic René Clair writing in 1929 makes a clear distinction between film dialogue and film noise and very clearly suggests that noise can have meaning and be interpreted: "...it is possible that an interpretation of noises may have more of a future in it. Sound cartoons, using "real" noises, seem to point to interesting possibilities" ('The Art of Sound' (1929)). Alberto Cavalcanti uses noise as a synonym for natural sound ('Sound in Films' (1939)) and as late as 1960, Siegfried Kracauer was referring to noise as non-speech sound ('Dialogue and Sound' (1960)).

Audio noise

Main article: Colors of noise

In audio, recording, and broadcast systems audio noise refers to the residual low level sound (usually hiss and hum) that is heard in quiet periods of programme.

In audio engineering it can also refer to the unwanted residual electronic noise signal that gives rise to acoustic noise heard as 'hiss'. This signal noise is commonly measured using A-weighting or ITU-R 468 weighting

Electronic noise

Main article: Electronic noise

Electronic noise exists in all circuits and devices as a result of thermal noise, also referred to as Johnson Noise. Semiconductor devices can also contribute flicker noise and generation-recombination noise. In any electronic circuit, there exist random variations in current or voltage caused by the random movement of the electrons carrying the current as they are jolted around by thermal energy. The lower the temperature the lower is this thermal noise. This same phenomenon limits the minimum signal level that any radio receiver can usefully respond to, because there will always be a small but significant amount of thermal noise arising in its input circuits. This is why radio telescopes, which search for very low levels of signal from stars, use front-end low-noise amplifier circuits, usually mounted on the aerial dish, and cooled with liquid nitrogen.

External links

• Noise International Sydney. Music for Film and TV
• Aercoustics Engineering Limited. Consultants in Acoustics, Noise and Vibration
• Audio Measuring Articles - Electronics
• Mohr on Receiver Noise: Characterization, Insights & Surprises
• Fundamentals of Electrical Noise
• Noise voltage - Calculation and Measuring of Thermal Noise
• Noise at work European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA)

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