Russolo’s presented a very unique view in The Art of Noise. Russolo discussed the past, present, and future of music and noise. Can noise be music? Can noise be beautiful? Can noise be interesting? When I hear and think about the word noise, I think of something annoying, loud, and an inconvenience such as construction work, a baby crying, or a cat screeching. To think about noise as something special and worthy of our ears is a unique concept but it does make sense because essentially all music is noise, all sound is noise, it is us the people who put meaning to the noise, and it is us who decide what is beautiful, and it is us who distinguish what to our ears is good noise and bad noise.
One point that Russolo made that I thought really supported his claims was that the sounds we can produce from instruments is limited, however the sounds we can make using everything around us is limitless and that way we can create any composition of sound “noise” that we can imagine without any restraints.
The piece I picked from Ubu Web Sound is by Giovanni Fontana and immediately I was intrigued by this weird composition because it immediately reminded me of something I might hear in a Harry Potter movie or any movie about magic and the dark arts. The whole piece has an eerie feel to it, it is composed of someone muttering in a different language, which his voice echoing, and being supported by voices yelling in the distance, and with repetitive whispering. It sounds like he is casting a spell/curse and it is quite intriguing and fun to listen to. I can make out the sound of water dripping, bells chiming, and what I believe as something to be bubbling, or boiling. All the sounds would be considered as noise on there own, but together this composition comes together nicely.
http://www.ubu.com/sound/fontana.html