Noise as art. Noise as music. Music as the art of noises.
From 1916 comes this essential work of modern music and sound theory, the first work that asks the question “if music is sound, why not use all the sounds available?” Italian Futurist, Luigi Russolo wanted to create music that would incorporate the full spectrum of the twentieth century soundscape — cars, trains, animal sounds, industrial machinery, the roar of crowds. His ideas, dismissed at the time, anticipated the work of composers such as John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Pierre Boulez by decades. Russolo was also active in designing some of the first musical
