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> ...because all this sawing, humming, and burbling of pagan sounds remained in motion, also without the help of the futurists.

These sounds of functional machines have been thrown into the world since the industrial revolution.
Whoever was composing for the big orchestra - particularly the early Stravinsky and Varese, had during his life listened to these noises - of a world becoming ever more noisy - as music, and also tried to reproduce them. <

David Toop
'Ocean of Sound'