Noise: tensões entre modelos de audibilidade e códigos culturais na contemporaneidade

Abstract

This research focuses on the "noise movements" - several musical movements that emmerged on the last two decades of the 20th century, centered on requesting the sonorous in its impact possibilities and in its intense noise mobilization. Setting from an analysis of the term "noise" we could notice that its discussion, use and demand guided a great part of the transformations in sound at stake on the 20th century. The noise invaded the daily life through the process known as the modernity, by the urban city developments where intense technological shifts were made. These new technologies mobilize types of sounds with distinct qualities when comparing its volume levels, its noisy spectra and its insistence. New technologies of sound generation and control also have made possible to manipulate it. Such uses of new sound resources was at the centre of several 20th century musical expressions, notably by the italian futurists, Edgard Varése, John Cage, the musique concrete, the rock, the punk, among others. However, by focusing on the Materialities theories as a reference we developed the idea that the "noise movements" explored on the noise concept a meaning that wasn't preponderant on those other expressions. By mobilizing certain sound intrinsic characteristics, the "noise movements" aim to reach the bodies through some sort of force, through the body's resistance and tolerance to sound stimuli. These objectives conferes tactile characteristics to the sound, extrapolating the mere auditive field