“We can produce sounds almost imperceptible and wide and profundly prolonged, attenuated and sharp. Sounds of a work in its origen, we make them tremble and whisper. We imitate the voices of the beasts and birds and all kinds of articulated sounds. We have certain aids that applied to the ear aument noticeably the reach of hearing. Also diverse and singular articficial ecos that repeate the voice many times as if bounced, and others that return it higher than they receive it.”

 (Francis Bacon, 1561-1626)

"I have invented new music, without instruments. Old music doesn’t know more than to make intestines growl, make breath pass through metal pipes or percuss dead donkeys.(...) I have written a symphony with natural sounds that produce sensations absolutley unsuspected, and will be the beginning of a revolution in this now decrepit art"

(Giovanni Papini, 1931)

"The keyboard to compose noises. I wait for it.  The musical thing is not in the nature, or is in very little amount.  But the noises, great and attractiveas they are,  base more relative of our life that the rays of the sun. We will  reconstruct them, we will submerge in them and,thanks to this device,we will work in the same skeleton of the nature."

(Henri Michaux, 1942)

“... immersed in the profund extasy of  working commands, switches and gears, with the objective of tuning tones and volume, while the incredible authentic rumbling of the motors thunders, the snowstorms, the trucks loaded with scraps and other sounds, strangely enough,  recorded for their spiritual enjoyment."

(Philip K. Dick, 1957)

"Honour thy error as a hidden intention"

(Oblique Strategies, 1975)