Hooked Into Machine

Yeah, but Luigi Russolo of Futurist Movement-fame was all about the noise.

Mike Patton plays a reconstructed Intonarumori noise machine for an SFMOMA exhibit opening:



(via youtube)

It's Oh So Quiet Here

Tomorrow is the 15th annual International Noise Awareness Day!

The General Assembly of the International Music Council (UNESCO), Paris, October, 1969:

"We denounce unanimously the intolerable infringement on individual freedom and of the right of everyone to silence, because of the abusive use, in private and public places, of recorded or broadcast music. We ask the Executive Committee of the International Music Council to initiate a study from all angles—medical, scientific and juridical—without overlooking its artistic and educational aspects, and with a view to proposing to UNESCO, and to the proper authorities everywhere, measures calculated to put an end to this abuse."

Down with Muzak?
Check out Right to Quiet Society and the Center for Hearing and Communication for more information.

Interested in noise pollution and acoustic design? Read The Soundscape by R. Murray Schaefer. It's awesome.