INTRO
For this blog I chose to analyse ‘Very Noise’ from the Spirituality and Distortion (2020) album by the French multi-instrumentalist and producer Gautier Serre, better known as Igorrr. This tracks has a hybrid sound experimenting with breakcore and metal music, something that I’ll talk about as also the production behind it.
AESTHETICS / GENRE FUSION
The track is chaotic but somehow it ends up being funny by the way the main line is repeated all over the song – a line that sounds similar to videogame’s music to me. It has the unpredictable drums of breakcore, then the guitar joins repeating the melodic line that the drums are making. And now that we have the metal riffs and the chaotic drums, he goes unto playing a bar and then finish them up in a different way in each time. He is creative with the ends of each lines using a variety of artistic and sonic resources such as instrument fills, operatic chants or even a chainsaw cutting a gas tank.
PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES
For the drums, he chopped with extreme precision and create each bar purposefully, different from traditional sampling-and- looping. For the guitar and bass he adds distortion to create this crunchy and dark sound, typical of metal guitars. This is a strong contrast with cartoon-like effects that we hear throughout the song, a bold decision that shows his creative mindset.
SONIC IDENTITY
This controlled chaos in Igorrr’s song ‘Very Noise‘ is not new, is one of his signature style. And to achieve this unpredictability he stands in the opposite side of minimalism, being a maximalist in music (using a wide range of techniques). Another way he does it, it’s by switching mood quickly: he is playing quiet and then change too loud and fast, the sounds are soft and dreamy, now it’s harsh and heavily distorted.
CONTEXT / ARTISTIC APPROACH
Serre grew up with baroque music, black and death metal but he never found a genre that mixed all of his passions, until he discovered breakcore, where rules doesn’t exist. This inspired him to create his own sound, genre-less as he says in many interview. Just a compound of his own personal tastes.
CONCLUSION
This tracks Igorrr’s experimental fusion in a exaggerated way, having multiple influences in one song. The fast pace of the sound and the weirds sounds makes it a unique piece of art.
Bibliography:
- Digital Commons @ DU. (2021). Exploring Maximalism in Music, Comparing the Selected Works of Richard Strauss and Kanye West: Annotated Bibliography. [online] Available at: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/musicology_student/105/ [Accessed 12 Dec. 2025].
- Igorrr (2021). IGORRR – Making of SPIRITUALITY AND DISTORTION | Documentary. [online] YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0B4Zddc9j0 [Accessed 12 Dec. 2025].
Ox Fanzine, Solingen, Deutschland (2020). Interview. [online] Ox-fanzine.de. Available at: https://www.ox-fanzine.de/interview/igorrr-11274 [Accessed 12 Dec. 2025].
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