Chris Goudreau, better know for his harsh noise project SICKNESS, started to create/destroy sound in 1988. Starting out as straight-forward, full blast, harsh electronic purity; SICKNESS is a contrast and collection of harsh noise filled with quick cuts between sources, hard rapid fire loops, sheet metal crash, and harsh electronics/feedback. Sets under his own name pull more from musique concrete and electro-acoustic influences while still keeping the harsh noise close at hand. The sound is active. It is seeking to push, pull, or shove the listener into the theme of each piece moving them as the sounds shift, move and flow. Combining modular synth, found sound, noise and tension Goudreau creates a moving soundscape where the listener is an active piece in the puzzle.

"Goudreau’s stuff was tense and menacing. Sounds reminiscent of passing traffic, or distant voices in an airport, suddenly shorted out or were obliterated in a burst of noise, as Goudreau’s hands moved across the equipment with the deftness of a piano player." – Brian Slattery, New Haven Independent