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fitrisiain's review
4.0
"Let’s walk together through a great modern capital, with the ear more attentive than the eye, and we will vary the pleasures of our sensibilities by distinguishing among the gurglings of water, air and gas inside metallic pipes, the rumblings and rattlings of engines breathing with obvious animal spirits, the rising and falling of pistons, the stridency of mechanical saws, the loud jumping off trolleys on their rails, the snapping of whips, the whipping off flags." (Russolo Luigi, 1913)
Way, way ahead of his time. A century later, we're now perhaps unaware of the pastiche of the heavily processed noise of washing machines in our favourite song. It is exactly a text like this to remind people that there's ~absolutely~ no limit or rules in art and expression - for good or bad
Way, way ahead of his time. A century later, we're now perhaps unaware of the pastiche of the heavily processed noise of washing machines in our favourite song. It is exactly a text like this to remind people that there's ~absolutely~ no limit or rules in art and expression - for good or bad
dannymason_1's review
5.0
The fact that this was written in 1913 is insane. Essential reading for anyone into experimental music, anyone who wants to get into it, or for anyone baffled as to the appeal of it. It makes the case for why there's so much more to music than the forms we're used to incredibly elegantly and clarified a lot of things I've struggled to put into words myself. There's a few parts of this that could be described as dated when he goes into more specific examples of what types of music could be created, but they're such fun and interesting historical artefacts that they don't take away from the quality at all.
ronocoolo's review
Quite an interesting essay of early ideas of noise music by arguably the first noise musician. It does have some things I disagreed with, like I feel the dismissal of orchestral music stops this from being close to the most interesting understanding of noise but it's rather impressive for it's time and it would have been incredible to be in the room of the first performance of these machines. I really loved reading on this topic and he's a very funny writer and I find it partucualry funny when he talks on the objection that noise is harsh to the ears and he's just like "so what get used to it".
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