Ironically as I was reading this article, I could hear man-made noise and also what Russolo considered as "silence" in nature. I could hear a motorized grass cutting machine outside blaring through the sky but whenever it wasn't on, I could hear various birds chirping in nature. Normally I wouldn't think much of this except that the machine sounds pretty loud and probably waking up some people; however this article shed a new light upon sounds and noises for me so I found these noises to be pretty exciting and they actually helped further prove some of Russolo's points. The grass cutting machine had a variety of tones when doing different thing- it mumbled, growled at times, higher pitches when cutting grass, and overpowered and drowned out any other preexisting nature sounds. It made me think that Russolo did have a point in considering nature as silence other than what he stated in the article because man-made noises can also silence nature sounds since man-made noises can be controlled and made louder to drown out sounds.
This article showed a very innovative way of thinking about sounds and how they have progressed through the ages. I had always thought of noises as always existing but Russolo points out successfully that new sounds are always being created and as time goes on, new noises will culminate to form new sounds. Either from new machines, inventions, or maybe even new computer software. He makes it sound like silence no longer exists in our world due to all the machines we have nowadays everywhere we go. If you think about it, we even carry around with us everywhere little machines that make noises - our phones. Russolu encourages Futurists to improve on music and make better and bigger sounds through the addition and combining of noises.
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