The sound I decided to choose is called “Morning to Noon” by Jean-Claude Risset. On listening to the track which is nearly ten minutes long, I found it rather interesting how drawn to it I felt compared to the other tracks.
http://www.ubu.com/sound/risset.html
The noises switch from crashing waves, to bird noises,to all types of noises we hear in nature, to weird high pitched alien like noise that seemed to be created by various instruments. In my opinion, the idea that the artists was aiming to get to was his very own portrayal of morning to noon. The noises he combines somehow fit his definition to the start of his day, or what he believes might be the start to everybody’s day.
Just as Luigi Russolo say’s in The Art of Noise;
“Noise accompanies every manifestation of our life. Noise is familiar to us. Noise has the power to bring us back to life.”
Russolo talks about what makes one artist different from the other by his or her own combination of different noises, but the one thing they have in common is that it is in some form familiar to the audience and gives them a sense of revival.
I believe the idea combining different noises contributes to how we feel. When listening to Morning to Noon, I felt calm at first and then began to feel hypnotized like as though some of the noises were unfamiliar yet drew me in. But what Russolo teaches me is that all those noises are in actuality familiar because they are just various renditions and combination of basic noises that I am familiar with.
Nonetheless, The Art of Noise teaches us the actual beauty of noise and sound and how there is potential for great noises to be produced. What we are used to is music, in it’s different forms, yet as non-musicians we might be unfamiliar with the building blocks of music. Music has a structure that is only fathomable if we understood it’s basic elements. I know I like a certain type of genre of music, but I have no idea how that genre came to exist. Therefore, reading Russolo’s theory of The Art of Noise has potentially changed that. I am unfamiliar with tracks like Risset’s, yet feel drawn to it. So in the back of my mind I imagine maybe the music I listen to on a regular basis might actually have similar elements to that of Morning to Noon, which is in a way creepy but fascinating.
