Reading Response # 1

Proclaiming the era of the "Futurist" movement, Russolo lays critique to the past-tense of what we know as music: an orchestra of epic proportions, forty violins creating harmonious and breath-taking melodies. He also appears to find all this futile. With his own determined 6 Families of Noises (including groans, explosions, and creaks), he seems to find more beauty in the sounds around us. He states that every noise possesses a tone and sometimes even a harmony. While this may be true, simply by listening so intently, it may be possible he is hearing what he wants to hear. It is not enough to find a noise irritating or disagreeable--we must seek to find what is behind it that leads us to that judgment. Overall I enjoyed this reading, though I certainly found fault with some of Russolo's findings.