The Art of Noises

"The Art of Noises" is a groundbreaking essay by composer Luigi Russolo from 1913, emphasizing the importance of incorporating everyday sounds—like machinery, traffic, and city noise—into music. Russolo believed that as modern life became noisier, music should expand beyond traditional instruments to capture this sonic diversity, creating a more dynamic and expressive art form. His ideas challenged classical notions of music, advocating for the use of noise as a creative resource, and helped inspire the development of experimental and electronic music genres.