Vidro e martelo: contradições na estetização do ruído na música

The object of this research is the noise and its relationship with music. My idea is to investigate, not always through linear path, the role it plays in music, especially in the period from early twentieth century to now. This investigation is not focused on a technical survey, nor on an historicist approach to the theme. My concern is more focused on a deeper layer in which one can find some connections between what we call \"musical\" and the very culture that generates it. Noise is an essential element for the understanding of certain aspects of modernity, especially in respect of music production (and why not to say, of art production in general) in that period. What I want to show is that many of the contradictions and tensions that feed modern music can be understood as a movement toward acceptance or rejection of noise. The central idea of this text is that there is a recurring dialectical process in the relationship between music and noise. As a disturbance, as a marginal element, noise tends to be avoided, because it always brings the risk of desegregating a system. My intention is to investigate the passage from noise as a disruptive element to music. This relationship is directed to an understanding of how noise has become a destabilizing element, establishing a dialectic tension between its rejection and acceptance as a musical element.