Reading Response #1

In “The Art of Noises” by Luigi Russolo, He begins by saying that the noise was not born until the nineteenth century, and that volcanoes, earthquakes waterfalls ect, were the only noise with exception. I chose this reading, because there were more then just those noises. He is too opinionated and won’t acknowledge that everything is noise. Animals made noises. Wind made noises. People made noises. He also says, “To our ears…[certain chords produced by our orchestras] sound pleasant, since our hearing has already been educated by modern life, so teeming with variegated noises. But our ears are not satisfied merely with this, and demand an abundance of acoustic emotions.” I also believe this is very opinionated because we do hear the noises outside of music. The music of an orchestra is still noise.
Russolo brings up a few inflexible points about noise. Like I said he doesn’t believe noise was created until someone made the first machine to create this “noise”. He also says we are not satisfied with the music because we want more, or that we don’t get what we want. He says that music is boring and that we need to listen to our natural sounds around us. I believe listen to everything around us can broaden our horizon, but I don’t infuriate music because it’s a machine. It is just as natural as a car driving by on a bridge or the construction of a building. Noise is all around us, and music is no different.
As a media artist I think that we need to be open-minded to everything. Noise is noise, but there are all different kinds. I agree with his sentence, “…the art of noise must not limit itself to limited reproductions.”