Silent Noise
Dwight Poole was born July, 1, 1990. As he grew into his teen / post-high school years he struggled with anxiety, depression, a low feeling of self-worth. He believed he was never good enough. His passion was music. Under the stage names of Ignorant Noise and Dwight Noise, he entertained and reached many people with his creativity and music. He played many local clubs, DJ’s for many others. Played Concord Music Hall in Chicago, North Coast Music Fest, Spring Awakening. He had visions of playing larger festivals.
He worked tirelessly on his musical creations. While some may discount EDM as a form, it is more than just pressing a couple of buttons on a computer, it is tedious and laborious. He lived to do that. Unfortunately haven chosen to make this his path, one constantly fights the financial aspect. The music industry is no longer driven by record sales, with a piece going to the artist. It is driven by streaming which provides very little to the artist. If an artist isn’t touring, performing, or selling merchandise, they are not surviving.
Dwight was the person who truly would, regardless of his situation, help a person whenever they needed it. Outwardly, most of the time, his struggles were Silent. Inside there was much Noise. In 2019 he had performed at North Coast and was working on his latest release. He was outwardly Silent, inwardly much Noise. People knew his struggles, he always said he would get help but help costs money. No job, no health insurance, surviving on $100 a night checks at clubs. Mounting debt, he knew we would help him but he wouldn’t ask. In October of 2019, he attempted suicide, he realized that he needed help and needed, most importantly, to get people back into his life. A good friend who he had been working with to make his vision of a local club for DJ’s and other artists was taking shape, helped him in his struggle. In November of 2019, that good friend was killed in a tragic automobile accident. Dwight took it extremely hard. The final spiral began. He reached out to his family, wanted to be with us, inside the spiral was continuing. On November 25, 2019 there was a memorial for his friend, Dwight played and gave the eulogy. He went home later that night, the last known contact he had with anyone was around 10 am. He had told people he would never take his own life, he wouldn’t do that to people. At some point during the day of November 26, 2019, he completed suicide and ended his pain.
Silent Noise has been created to provide outreach, point people to where help is, give them materials, education, eventually provide scholarships for those who don’t have the resources to obtain mental health counseling. Too many of our young people are reaching that point where the only way to end the Noise is suicide. We must do better and as long as I have a voice, the ability to do something, I am going to do it.
Dwight was working on a release of his music, Not Dead Yet (ironically), he had completed a few tracks and was working on a third. I grabbed all of his music and hard drives – have placed much of it on various streaming services. Recently we produced his first full length CD – The Words Fall.
A gofundme has been setup to raise funds to produce Not Dead Yet, tracks have been remastered and are nearly ready for production. Proceeds of this project will go to providing outreach and education to those in our community who need help.
Last year, through local community outreach, direct fundraising and our first Fright Noise 0.5k “run,” we were able to donate over $4,000 to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. This year we will be supporting AFSP and other organizations who provide direct support to those who need help.
If you wish to participate in helping us, please follow the link to the gofundme page. We are setting up websites, have merchandise available at Shopify and Etsy. Every donation helps, regardless of the amount.
Thank you!
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