Editing Noise (section)

== Literary views ==

[[Roland Barthes]] distinguishes between [[physiological]] noise, which is merely [[hearing|heard]], and [[psychological]] noise, which is actively [[listening|listened to]]. Physiological noise is felt subconsciously as the vibrations of the noise (sound) waves physically interact with the body while psychological noise is perceived as our conscious awareness shifts its attention to that noise.<ref name="Barthes1985">{{cite book|last=Barthes|first=Roland |title=The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art and Representation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g6konQEACAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Hill and Wang|location=New York|isbn=9780809080755}}</ref>

[[Luigi Russolo]], one of the first composers of [[noise music]],<ref name="ChilversGlaves-Smith2009">{{cite book|editor1=Chilvers, Ian |editor2=Glaves-Smith, John |title=A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mwf6RVGYLjgC&pg=PA619|year=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-923965-8|pages=619–620}}</ref> wrote the essay ''[[The Art of Noises]].'' He argued that any kind of noise could be used as music, as audiences become more familiar with noises caused by technological advancements; noise has become so prominent that pure sound no longer exists.<ref name="CoxWarner2004a">{{cite book|editor1=Cox, Christoph |editor2=Warner, Daniel |title=Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music|chapter=The art of noises: futurist manifesto|author= Russolo, Luigi |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FgDgCOSHPysC&pg=PA10|year=2004|publisher=Continuum|location=New York|isbn=978-0-8264-1615-5|pages=10ff}}</ref>

[[avant-garde music|Avant-garde]] composer [[Henry Cowell]] claimed that technological advancements have reduced unwanted noises from machines, but have not managed so far to eliminate them.<ref name="CoxWarner2004">{{cite book|editor1=Cox, Christoph |editor2=Warner, Daniel |title=Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music|chapter=The joys of noise|author= Cowell, Henry|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FgDgCOSHPysC&pg=PA22|year=2004|publisher=Continuum|location=New York|isbn=978-0-8264-1615-5|page=22}}</ref>

Felix Urban sees noise as a result of cultural circumstances. In his comparative study on sound and noise in cities, he points out that noise regulations are only one indicator of what is considered as harmful. It is the way in which people live and behave (acoustically) that determines the way how sounds are perceived.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Acoustic Competence Investigating sonic empowerment in urban cultures|last=Urban, Felix|others=Tectum Verlag|year=2016 |isbn=978-3-8288-3683-9|edition=1. Auflage|location=Marburg|oclc=951121194}}</ref>