Unlistenable shit has a name, & it's name is "Danger Music"
Kyle Gann describes in his book Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice how Takehisa Kosugi's composition Music for a Revolution directs the performer to "[s]coop out one of your eyes 5 years from now and do the same with the other eye 5 years later". Works such as this are also sometimes referred to as anti-music because they seem to rebel against the concept of music itself.
Danger music is often closely associated with the Fluxus school of composition, especially the work of Dick Higgins who composed a series of works entitled Danger Music.
Australian noise musician Justice Yeldham plays an instrument made of glass, often shattering it during live shows and receiving facial wounds in the process.
As with many forms of concept music and performance art, the lines between "music", "art", "theater", and "social protest" are not always clear or apparent. Danger Music consequently has some things in common with the performance art of artists such as Mark Pauline and Chris Burden. For instance, some extreme examples of danger music direct performers to use sounds so loud that they will deafen the participants, or ask performers to throw antipersonnel bombs into the audience
This photo above is not a performance of danger music, it is a band called Danger Danger who look like such total numpties I wanted to post their picture. The image below may be something to do with something but I have no idea what...
This is a video of some dangerous music involving using a hair trimmer without a helmet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQLa3_X-8fY&t=21s
Nam June Paik's composition “Danger Music for Dick Higgins” instructs people to listen and imagine “creeping into the vagina of a living whale”...
