What is the (WHITE NOISE) noise? Noise is simply any and every sound that wiggles
through the air and tickles your delectable ear drums.
What's the difference between sound, noise and music?
Sound is the physical vibration which we feel and let inside our bodies.
Music is an order of sound vibrated in a certain way that pleases our brains and sometimes
our booties. Noise is everything else inbetween.
Noise can be the sound of a delicate butterfly fluttering careless through the air.
Or the hustle and bustle of a city street! Or even the vibrations that exist outside
our human perception. (SOMETHING WEIRD)
Music has a distinct structure which follows rules set by mathematical order to make sense
of the world. Noise music is a giant fuck you to that system!
Whether this is your first time hearing about Noise music or you BOW to MERZBOW
and you're mouth salivates at the band SMEGMA. Noise music has a long expansive history only
most recently recorded in the past 100 years.
The year is 1912,
Italian hipsters were getting massive boners thinking about the future!
They created a movement called FUTURISM, in which all their artwork was focused on technology
and the industrialization of then modern living... Basically a bunch of wooshy paintings.
This however changed when Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo wrote "THE ART OF NOISES" in
1913, in which Luigi claimed the industrial revolution
will pave the way for future musicians to create any sound and timbre imaginable.
Luigi latered invented this machine known as the into-naru-mori which was basically
the first giant acoustic drum machine.
In 1917 Luigi unleased his machine in Milan with a concert titled "GRAN CONCERTO FUTURISTICO"
The audience loved it so much they threw rotten vegetables at him destroyed his machines.
Just kidding, the Germans destroyed his machines when they bombed France during WORLD WAR II.
Also the audience did really throw shit at him cuz the machine sounded horrible.
Later in 1922 Arseny Avra-amov a Russian Composer wrote, and performed "Simfoniya gudkov"
also known as "SYMPHONY of FACTORY SIRENS" which was basically
a RUSSIAN MAJOR LEAGUE GAMING TRAP REMIX only over 90 years ago.
The piece involved navy ship sirens and whistles, bus and car horns, factory sirens, cannons,
the foghorns of the entire Soviet flotilla in the Caspian Sea, artillery guns, machine
guns, hydro-airplanes, a specially designed "whistle main,"
and renderings of Internationale and Marseillaise by a mass band and choir. The piece was conducted
by a team of conductors using flags and pistols.
Let me emphasize this, it was performed twice. The second time didn't go so go apparently.
Later in 1936 in France the composer and electro-stimulation enthusiast Edgard Varese had a little too
much wine and baguettes one evening and accidentally knocked up a record player
by playing vinyl records backwards and at various speeds.
This is how Edgard became the father of electronic music.
His Frankenstein monster child was later passed on to French composer and Theoretician Pierre
Schaeffer.
In 1949 Pierre went public with his new found child which he named MUSICQUE CONCRETE which
as we all know is French for concrete music! Concrete music was the first ever acoustic-electric
music which used prerecorded samples on gramophones and tapes being physically manipulated to
created otherworldly never before heard sounds.
Pierre described Concrete music as the "plastifying" of music, and believe this would evolve into
musicians sculpting sound a particular way using existing noise.
Concrete music is also Vaporwave's Grandparent.
Later in 1952 in America radical rebel bad boy composer John Cage unleashed his META
MEME 4' 33" in which a piano player is instructed to sit
at the piano for 4 minutes and 33 seconds and the noise of the audience became the piece.
The audience marveled at such a bold statement which changed music forever.
Just kidding, the audience thought it was boring and dumb and literally walked out the
last few minutes of the piece.
During the 1960's the privileged American Youth with their cheap college, nice economy,
Vietnams and LSDs started making weird pop music using miscellaneous sounds, some of
which appearing in mainstream radio. When The Beatles began doing tape experimentation
and overdub feedback you bet your sweet ass all these other musicians started memeing
them right away.
This of-course led the Jazz generation to declare what they were doing wasn't REAL MUSIC!
Unfortunately the JAZZ GENERATION died alone in a retirement home. It's ghost still hangs
out every so often hidden in electric currents,
This has been the first part on a short series on the history of NOISE MUSIC
In the next part I'll elaborate on what happened to Noise music in the next 40 years, as the
way humans distrubted music began changing.
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