How music is evolving and created, related to technology and industrialization and civilization
Dadaism and futurism
Framed by discussing historical precedence
exploration of sound,
ancient form,
Mythologies,
natural,
Mathematical - theory to describe the natural world
-fibonacci sequence in nature (leaves, branches)
-fractals
-golden ratio 1:1.618 (faces, “squares”), pleasing to look at
Ratio - proportions (rationality) ---> laws
IDEALS - classical Grecian sculptures
Scales in music
Infinite combination of sounds (THINK: all the muscle movements in the face)
1913 Russolo - mechanisms are growing more popular (cars, manufacturing, mass crops, factorization) - Western Europe, USA
Scales are not necessarily relevant because they were questioning authority (ie: church)
If you have authority you are the author
Hegemony - accepted rules that run the world
Rationality
You can’t escape the reality/hegemony so you create an alternate reality around it
Ethos - ethics
Russolo is coming out of WWI (gassing of humans in trenches)
Social Contract
Embrace reality - throw away/ignore musical scales, authorship, narrow view music vs the openness of the world. Music became idealized -- lost its connection to natural sounds
“The world is your instrument”
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