”THE FUTURE OF MUSIC: CREDO
I BELIEVE THAT THE USE OF NOISE
Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating. The sound of a truck at fifty miles per hour. Static between the
stations. Rain. We want to capture and control these sounds, to use them
not as sound effects but as musical instruments. Every film studio has a
library of “sound effects” recorded on film. With a film phonograph it is now
possible to control the amplitude and frequency of anyone of these sounds
and to give to it rhythms within or beyond the reach of the imagination.
Given four fllm phonographs, we can compose and perform a quartet for
explosive motor, wind, heartbeat, and landslide.
TO MAKE MUSIC
If this word “music’ is
sacred and reserved for eighteenth- and nineteenth-century instruments,
we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound…”
from Biblioteca de Anarquismo y Anarquistas (2009-ongoing)
Contributed by
Juan Pablo Macías