The Fredösphere

The futurists scorned tradition.  In painting, they threatened to destroy the museums of Italy, and in music, they challenged fundamental assumptions, claiming that noise had compositional validity.  "Life in ancient times was silent," asserted Luigi Russolo in "The Art of Noises" from 1913.  "In the nineteenth century, with the invention of machines, Noise was born.  Today Noise is triumphant, and reigns supreme over the senses of men."  Russolo went on to call for a "MUSIC OF NOISE," imploring composers to "break out of this narrow circle of pure musical sounds, and conquer the infinite variety of noise-sounds."

Carol J. Oja, writing in Making Music Modern

The whole house and garden are one vast obscenity. It bears a sickening resemblance to the description one human writer made of Heaven: "the regions where there is only life and therefore all that is not music is silence."

Music and silence--how I detest them both! How thankful we should be that ever since our Father entered Hell... no square inch of infernal space and no moment of infernal time has been surrendered to either of those abominable forces, but all has been occupied by Noise--Noise, the grand dynamism, the audible expression of all that is exultant, ruthless, and virile--Noise which alone defends us from silly qualms, despairing scruples and impossible desires. We will make the whole universe a noise in the end.

The Demon Screwtape, as quoted by C. S. Lewis in The Screwtape Letters