Music, Noise and Conflict: Sociotechnical Imaginaries, Acoustic Agency and Ontological Assumptions about Sound
Journal: Journal of the Royal Musical Association
Year: 2021

In a 1969 interview, the Italian composer Luigi Nono stated that, 'If a score cannot provoke or incite revolution, it can contribute to it by participating in intellectual and revolutionary hegemony.' 1 Drawing on the work of Antonio Gramsci, Nono considered composers as intellectual workers with a responsibility to catalyse or amplify the social struggles of their times through the technical means and material employed in their works. 2 The scores, tapes or concerts were sites of action and rep