Due Wednesday, 8/27
Read Russolo’s “The Art of Noises: Futurist Manifesto” in Audio Culture (chapter 2, pp. 10 – 14), or online at ubuweb.
Email to me short responses to the following questions:
- Electronic musicians have a fairly specific definition of noise. (random waveforms that produce all frequencies) Is Russolo using this defintion? If not, what does he mean by the use of noise?
- Russolo writes of the sonic limitations of the (then current) orchestra. Has the orchestra changed significantly since 1913, and if so, how?
- Russolo calls for an “orchestra of noises,” made by the machines of the industrial age. Setting aside the historical specifics of early 20th-century technology, can you think of any contemporary types of musical ensembles that might qualify as a machine/technology-based orchestra of noises?
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