Luigi Russolo – transcience

A part of the reading that stood out was Luigi Russolo’s journey from medium to medium. He initially started off doing traditional art mediums like painting but at some point in his life had switched to doing music instead. This change of medium showcased his bold reimagining of artistic expression. His L’arte dei rumori. or the Art of Noises manifesto challenges the conventional ideas of sound and advocates for the use of industrial and mechanical noise. He argues in this manifesto that the human ear has become accustomed to such noises and that they should be integrated into music. Consequently, he developed this instrument by the name of intonarumori. This instrument was a machine designed to produce and manipulate the sounds of machinery and technology and explored the infinite variety of other noise-sounds that move beyond traditional orchestral limitation.

Lucia Dlugoszewski (1925-2000)

I chose this artists music and would consider her sounds, sound art as opposed to music. Music I believe is an organization of sounds to create rhythm or harmony. Her piece here didn’t necessarily have a rhythm nor harmony and yet I felt like I could see a picture being painted through the sounds she used. While they weren’t the most pleasant sounding noises, I’ll still call it for what it is, not music, but sound art, where a picture is painted through the ears and mind of the listener.