As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for … - Luigi Russolo

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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

Luigi Russolo

As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.

Art, Harsher, Musical, Sound, Stranger

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In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.

Invention, Men, Silence, Triumph

We must break out of this limited circle of sounds and conquer the infinite variety of noise-sounds.

Break, Break Out, Circles, Limited, Sound, Variety

Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.

Men, Noise, Reign, Sensibility, Supreme

Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from ideally combining the noise of streetcars, internal-combustion engines, automobiles, and bust crowds than from rehearsing, for example, the 'Eroica' or the 'Pastorale'. . . away! les ust be gone, since we shall not much longer succeed in restraining a desire to create a new musical realism by a generous distribution of sonorous blows and slaps, leaping numbly over violins, pianofortes, contrabasses, and groaning organs, Away!

Blow, Heart, Longer, Wagner, Wrung, Years

Everyone will recognize that each sound carries with it a tangle of sensations, already well-known and exhausted, which predispose the listener to boredom, in spite of the efforts of all musical innovators.

Boredom, Carries, Effort, Exhausted, Innovators, Musical

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