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"My very first group was called GERÄUSCHE (NOISES). When a lot of people make noises, they become an orchestra. If you bang a stone on linoleum, it's a solo-piece.
If you record these sounds on different tracks it becomes a composition.
Make as much noises as you want. If you organize this noise, it is no longer pure chaos...and it can be turned into music."


Every kind of noise is sound - every sound can turn into music.
The discovery of the idea of the expanded sound and hearing was one of the major requirements of all those upcoming experiments.
The obvious parallel to Beuys' expanded notion of art, did certainly not arose by chance.
Conrad Schnitzler, owner of the 'Underground'-club Zodiak and co-founder of such influential groups as Kluster, Eruption and Tangerine Dream, initially came, as many of his colleagues, from the fine arts and was one of first students of Beuys. [More on the ZODIAK club, it's artists and the Berlin-scene in the next chapter.]
A congenial predecessor from Italy: Luigi Russolo, initially a painter and member of the Italian futurists, built his own instruments and wrote a number of polemic essays, published under the title L'arte di rumori [The Art of Noise].
Russolo in front of his Intonorumori

"We really have enough now from all those symphonies.
We receive much more pleasure, in weaving together the noises of the railways and car-motors, the carriages and the roaring crowds, as having to hear the "Pastorale" or the "Eroica" yet another time."

Also for Kraftwerk, whose origins lay far deeper in the "free" / experimental music, as Autobahn a.o. later works would suggest, the liberation of the noises and sounds was a crucial element in the development of their music:

"Our model, our aim is the entire world of sound - with all it's noises. We receive our greatest inspiration from everyday live. We want to turn everyday life into sound.
We reflect this inspiration and turn it into music.
You can read music, language has a melody, phoneme's are musical sounds, cars, trains and machines can sing. Our idea was a combine all those elements.
That is our electronic music."
Ralf Huetter [Kraftwerk]

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