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bruitism
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The use in music of sounds taken from an extra-musical source or context. The term is used most often of percussion or of electronic music that suggests the…
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noun
The use in music of sounds taken from an extra-musical source or context. The term is used most often of percussion or of electronic music that suggests the sounds of machinery.
“More fundamentally, if only locally disruptive, was the bruitism of the Futurists which used the sounds of the non-musical environment - namely noise.”
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More fundamentally, if only locally disruptive, was the bruitism of the Futurists which used the sounds of the non-musical environment - namely noise.
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