VCC400H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Sound Stage, Luigi Russolo, Scientism

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Noise and disturbances, on anomalies of media culture. He tries to show one way of conducting media-archaeological analysis, namely a certain kind of archaeology of noise. Noise to be an intuitive part of technological culture, as it rings, it disturbs and hurts in our ears and bodies. Kittler analysed gramophone picks up not only the meaning inherent in human speech but just as effectively, the whispers, the noises of the body, the extras of communication. Luigi russolo suggested that we need an appreciation and careful classificuation and understanding of the variety of noises, a whole science of noises which are part and parcel of modern life. Doug khan trouble is that noises are never just sounds and the sounds they mask are never just sounds: they are also ideas of noise. Ideas of noise can be tetchy, abusive, transgressive, resistive, hyperbolic, scientistic, generative and cosmological . Noise redundancy and predictability of messaging become key contexts for modern communication.

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