Changes in attitude as to musical meaning appeared in the first decades of the century, in line with changes in attitude as to what constituted art
Intonarumori are boxes that contained a mechanical noise generator inside, with a crank handle on the back and an amplifying horn on the front. Russolo used them as a musical instrument.
John Cage (1912 - 1992) was a pioneer in the field of chance music, electronic music and the non-standard use of musical instruments. He was an American composer, however what he composed would not normally be called music.
He used a variety of instruments such as:
~Turntables (Imaginary Landscape No.1, 1939)
~Prepared Piano (Sonatas and Interludes, 1948)
~Silence (4’33, 1952)
~Found objects (Water Walk, 1960)
Glitch (1980s - present) is a form of experimental electronic music that originated in the 1980s, and is still practiced today.
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917
In 1913 the Italian Futurist artist and composer Luigi Russolo wrote his manifesto titled The Art of Noise, in which he envisaged a mechanical form of music. “Ancient life was all silence. In the 19th century, with the invention of the machine, noise was born. Today, noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibilities of men” (Russolo, 1913).Intonarumori are boxes that contained a mechanical noise generator inside, with a crank handle on the back and an amplifying horn on the front. Russolo used them as a musical instrument.
John Cage (1912 - 1992) was a pioneer in the field of chance music, electronic music and the non-standard use of musical instruments. He was an American composer, however what he composed would not normally be called music.
He used a variety of instruments such as:
~Turntables (Imaginary Landscape No.1, 1939)
~Prepared Piano (Sonatas and Interludes, 1948)
~Silence (4’33, 1952)
~Found objects (Water Walk, 1960)
Glitch (1980s - present) is a form of experimental electronic music that originated in the 1980s, and is still practiced today.
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