Abstract Music (Pure Art).

Noise music, experimental, avant-garde, whatever you want to call it, my first experience with it had to be seeing the Boredoms open for Nirvana. I wasn't quite ready yet, but I started listening to the Boredoms a lot within a year from seeing them. Then there was Sonic Youth, and Thurston Moore hosting MTV's 120 Minutes. By the time I was introduced to John Zorn, noise music as an art form had become a part of my life that wouldn't ever go away.
Evolving seemingly independently, I got into playing noise music shortly after I started playing guitar. Maybe because I didn't know how to play properly, maybe because I was too stubborn to learn, but it did seem what I was naturally drawn to. I made many recordings and planned releases, most of which have still never seen the light of day. I was even in a few noise bands, but they were mostly one offs, getting together for one show, or even just one practice.
I was musically adventurous, and I frequented record shops. I found many great and diverse titles that I still love, such as The Miracle of Levitation comp, Azonic Halo, Lull, Yamantaka Eye's violent Hanatarash, and Lee Ranaldo's  Scriptures of the Golden Eternity. I was in a record shop in Washington D.C. when I came across John Zorn's Naked City project for the first time. That one really blew me away.
I think, when it comes down to it, noise music is just abstract art. I find my self drawn to abstract art and extremes of art in all forms of art I enjoy. The abstract and the extreme aren't the only things I like, but I certainly have a major affinity for it.
Abstract art is often brushed aside by people as talentless noise that anyone could do. It is true technical skill isn't a factor in abstract forms of art, but that is where the real beauty in the whole thing lay. The way I see it, you have two major factors in a work of art. The artists technical skill, and the artist natural artistry. It's that natural artistry that music cannot do without. That hard to pinpoint "something" that is essential. Technical skill can cover up for that missing "something" to a point. If you have no artistic heart whatsoever, but you have a great talent at, let's say, guitar, you can still make music that people will enjoy. There is nothing wrong with working really hard to get good at playing an instrument.
When you take away the technical skill, however, all that is left is the pure artistic "something". Anyone can bang some instruments together, or splash paint on a canvas randomly. A true artist can make exceptional art without that technical skill. Noise music is that pure boiled down something, with no technical skill hiding it. It's raw, it's extreme, it's real. There is nothing left for the artist to hide behind.
That's not to say experimental musicians don't necessarily have technical talent. Take John Zorn, who makes music many people would call pure noise. He has a technical proficiency in his compositions that would rival the masters, but his chosen field is one where that technicality takes a back-burner.
Honestly, I listen to a very wide range of music, but I have a special place in my heart for "noise". Take away all the polish and technique and training, and you have something as close to pure art as you will ever hear.