Part I:

While reading “The Art of Noises” by Luigi Russolo, I realized that music can come from anywhere. I feel that when you restrict art to a limited amount of material, it blocks the expansion of creativity. Inspiration for art can come from a variety of sources, whether in music, paintings, sculptures, etc. In terms of music, the sounds can be a variety of things. For example, you can use the sound of a glass breaking as an element to your music. Today, we see musicians grab audios from tv shows, movies, nature, and everyday things. As long as you have a creative mind for combining different sounds, that’s all that matters. 

Part II:

The artist I chose is Joan La Barbara and everything I heard was her making sounds from her mouth. For example, she creates hissing noises or says words/phrases like “holy.” The sounds are usually random and sometimes she would just repeat things such as “dadada.” I find this intriguing because, from what I learned in “The Art of Noises” by Luigi Russolo, the elements of sounds in music can come from anywhere. It’s how you structure all those elements together to create music. That being said, this artist has an interesting way of creating these different noises to form her music. Additionally, I have thought about sound as art before because of music. I love listening to music and try my best to hear the details because I love the process of making music. While I have never made music myself, I have always wanted to try and even played around with GarageBand in the past, though I am no expert. All in all, understanding that sound can be art truly expands the range of creativity you can explore.