Reception and Influence
Whitehouse are a key influence in the development of noise music as a musical genre in Europe, Japan, the US, and elsewhere. The early music of Whitehouse is often credited with pioneering the power electronics (a term Bennett himself coined on the blurb to the Psychopathia Sexualis album) and noise genres.
The band's 2003 album Bird Seed was eventually given an 'honourable mention' in the digital musics category of Austria's annual Prix Ars Electronica awards.
As Nick Cain of The Wire put it,
| “ | By the end of the 1990s, power electronics was in a deep freeze. Fast forward a decade, and ... Whitehouse ... were enjoying an unlikely vogue, universally hailed by Noise makers from Peter Rehberg to Wolf Eyes ... and their work officially inducted into the avant garde canon through a collaboration with the German New Music ensemble Zeitkratzer. | ” |
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