Stimbox was a noise music

Noise music

Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...

 project run by Tim Oliveira, and was one of the most established names in the American

United States

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 harsh noise scene. Stimbox's work is noted for its dense, psychedelic

Psychedelic music

Psychedelic music covers a range of popular music styles and genres, which are inspired by or influenced by psychedelic culture and which attempt to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues-rock bands in the...

 sound, usually made with closed feedback

Audio feedback

Audio feedback is a special kind of positive feedback which occurs when a sound loop exists between an audio input and an audio output...

 loops run through various effects unit

Effects unit

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s. Like many acts in the noise field, Stimbox was a frequent collaborator with other noise artists, including Thirdorgan

Thirdorgan

Thirdorgan is the noise music project of the Japanese musician Akihiro Shimizu. Along with Government Alpha and Guilty Connector, Thirdorgan is one of the more prominent acts from the "second wave" of Japanoise acts in the middle to late 1990s. Shimizu also runs the record label Alienation Records....

, Xome

Xome

Xome is a harsh noise project from Sacramento, comprised solely of Bob Scott . Though formed in 1989, Xome did not perform live until 1994 in Tokyo.Xome's music is created by improvised manipulation of sound processing equipment....

, and RHY Yau. Oliveira was also the founder of the Hebi Like a Snake record label, and co-owner, along with Bob Scott of Xome

Xome

Xome is a harsh noise project from Sacramento, comprised solely of Bob Scott . Though formed in 1989, Xome did not perform live until 1994 in Tokyo.Xome's music is created by improvised manipulation of sound processing equipment....

, of the Harsh Noise label.

Partial discography

• Elf (cassette, 1995) Hebi Like A Snake
• Nein (cassette, 1995) Hebi Like A Snake
• Repeating Structure Implosion (cassette, 1995) Hebi Like A Snake
• Sound Therapy (cassette, 1995) Hebi Like A Snake
• Four Ways of Penetration (CDr, 1996) Bizarre Audio Arts
• Recycled Music (cassette, 1996) RRRecords
  RRRecords
  RRRecords is a used and new record shop. RRRecords is distinguished as being the first American record label to specifically publish underground noise music in the early 1980s, and published the first American vinyl by Merzbow, Masonna, The Hanatarash, Violent Onsen Geisha, and many more artists...
  
  
• Caveat Emptor (CDr, 1998) Solipsism Records
• Patrick Purdy (7", 1998) Self Abuse Records
• Fester (CDr, 2004) Rape Art Productions
  Rape Art Productions
  Rape Art Productions is an Ecuadorian independent record label founded in 2002. Rape Art Productions is specialized in subgenres of extreme experimental music such as Power electronics, Dark ambient and Noise...
  
  
• Inner Turmoil (CDr, 2004) Fargone Records
• Between Eugene and Victoria (CD, 2006) L. White Records
• Lazer Noise Up Your Ass (CDr, 2006) Hebi Like A Snake