I found this reading interesting and wasn't quite sure what to make of it. Russolo's views on the distinction between noise and sound was very unexpected. The idea of a noise has a negative connotation in my mind, yet Russolo spoke of noises as incredible, new things. He seemed to think that noises were a larger than life recent creation, where before the world existed only in silence and sound was quiet, and small; like a stretched string.

One of Russolo's comments I found particularly odd was when he wrote, "Do you know of any sight more ridiculous than that of twenty men furiously bent on the redoubling the mewing of a violin?... Let us now, as Futurists, enter one of these hospitals for anaemic sounds. There: the first bar brings the boredom of familiarity to your ear and anticipates the boredom of the bar to follow." Even though I have been bored at a concert before I never associated boredom or any similar feelings with concerts. I believe a great many people seek out concerts as a form of entertainment and Russolo's comment seemed very strange to me.

I found his comments toward the end of the article very interesting about the conclusions of the Futurists. I think they made sense in their ideas of pushing the envelope of music or noise and what people consider music. Enlarging the fields of sounds from simply chords and the notes that were traditionally thought of as music before the futurists is a very interesting and complex idea.