no wave
Noun
Meaning
no wave (uncountable)
(music) A broad musical and artistic movement originating in the mid-1970s in New York City, typified by experimentation and performance art.
Examples
They wander in deep woods, in mournful light, Amid long reeds and drowsy headed poppies And lakes where no wave laps, and voiceless streams, Upon whose banks in the dim light grow old Flowers that were once bewailèd names of kings.
A kiss is but a kiss now and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.
There is no wave without wind.
In New York, No Wave took direct inspiration from both free jazz and punk.
The ideals behind the (anti-) movement known as No Wave were found in many other archetypes before and just as many afterwards, but for a few years around the late 1970s, the concentration of those ideals reached a cohesive, white-hot focus.
The No Wave Cinema and Remodernist film movements owe much to punk aesthetics.