The Bastard Noise is an electronic music project. The Bastard Noise has published noise music recordings under various names over the years such as Man is the Bastard Noise, MITBNoise, "The Skull" and Bastard Noise. The Bastard Noise was founded in 1991 by Henry Barnes, W. T. Nelson and Eric Wood, initially as a side project of powerviolence band Man Is The Bastard.Project Members are W. T. Nelson (Trogotronic, Geronimo, Unicorn), Danny Walker (Intronaut, Uphill Battle, Phobia) & Eric Wood (Man Is The Bastard, Antennacle, PHC aka Throatrake). The Bastard Noise often collaborates so there are a number of notable contributors, collaborators and ex-members who have participated throughout the life of the project. Among them are Masami Akita, Henry Barnes, Bobby Bray, Buckethead, Usen Gandara, Keiji Haino, Isreal Lawrence, Josh "Ovalteen" Lewis, Tara MacDonald, Justin Pearson, Jay Randall, Leila Rauf, Koji Tano and John Wiese. Although The Bastard Noise utilizes many traditional instruments, the project has come to be known and recognized by the idiosyncratic sound of their purpose-crafted gear unique to the project. Electro-acoustic devices such as "the Coil", controllers such as joysticks repurposed from broken arcade games and a vast array of high & low voltage analog audio generators were invented, engineered and hand-built by Henry Barnes (who builds as Amps for Christ & Guitars For Christ) and W. T. Nelson (who builds for Trogotronic) specifically for The Bastard Noise lending to the projects' distinctive sound.