Response to “The Art of Noise” by: David Toop

Toop recognizes Rusollo’s vision of raw unabashed sound as a medium for art, and industrial and common sounds/noises found in everyday life suitable to make original music. The conflict now is where do you draw the line from noise to music. Toop has observed that the music is such a large medium of entertainment that creating sound art would just get caught up in the mix and assimilated into the music genre. Therefore forcing sound artists to create interactive sound art pieces. An example is Janet Cardiffs’s “A Missing Voice” which is interactive sound art in east London. Cardiff takes you on a tour throughout the streets while your listening to her voice through a CD and a walkman, sounds of the area conflict with the sounds Cardiff experienced while recording in the same area creating disorientation, while telling you a story. Thus sound art has expanded in its own realm and genre since Rusollo’s exclamation.