First off, the reason i chose Philip Glass is that i am familiar with some of his work. His work consists of some of the most obscure sounds i have listened to.  These particular pieces are no exception to his obscurity.  His works contain a lot of “noise” as opposed to warm harmonies that sit well with the listener. The “songs” that Philip Glass created such as, “a secret solo” and “Building(excerpt from einstein on the beach)” are very shrill and chaotic. In referencing Russolo’s article “The Art of Noise,” he states that music has undergone a revolution alongside rapid increase of machinery use in human labor.  I feel that this statement directly correlates with the pieces of Philip Glass. The songs have a sort of “machine”  personality to them. It isn’t like electronic dance music or any of that sort, but more like if you were to set off a bunch of alarms on different machines, Philip Glass’s songs would be the recording of those sounds.

A valid point i found in the reading was where Russolo says that we must expand our minds from the generic formula songs. He believes that if we are to experience the sounds that may be harsh and tonal at first, they might grow into something more pleasing. I completely agree with this statement, if we were to have just this “heroic” or retributive soundscape in music it would become old and boring. But this goes both ways, i feel that if there is just noise though, it will get tiresome. The main point i think Russolo is trying to make is that with out expanding our minds to new areas of sound we will not be able to innovate further into music.

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