The Art of Noise

I think that Russolo's view on noise and silence is rather confusing. I get confused when Russolo argues that the world was silent until the invention of the machine, but then goes further to exclude hurricanes and other major natural disasters. It's like he disregards natural sound such as wind and water until they reach a point of massive impact. Russolo focuses on the different levels of sound and the reach of noise but maybe he never considered the different levels of silence. Is silence just a state of mind? a peace that we find in ourselves or is it a man made room that stops sound waves. I think Russolo makes a good point that music is stuck on these instruments. In elementary school music class I always learned about persussion strings wind wood ect. and outside of that real the idea of music wasn't really discussed. Everything had to be organized into one of these categories and each one had a similar sound. Does noise have to be classified as music to be an artform though? I feel like music is becoming more accepting or these sounds or noise but i still feel its on the outer realm. To make music we think of instruments, I think electronic music has started to incorporate more "noise" sounds since the computer has become the instrument of choice. I feel like we have been forced to think of music in a linear sense, in the way we write and read it, but i feel like furturists are able to make compositions of sound that defy this linear sensibility creating something more complicated and more gratifying.