Noise is victory? Accelerated capitalism and its soundtrack

Abstract

The aim of modernity was to develop total works of art that detected the essence of their time. An example of this is Beethoven's musical work Heroic symphony: total sound. On the other hand, at the beginning of the 20th century, Italian futurists began to perceive the arrival of the art of noise, claiming the speed, energy and noise of the urban and industrial landscape. With the acceleration of the rotational speed of capital, the pace of music has also accelerated. Industrial, electronic and punk music take as their basis the noise (and speed) of their time. These noises want to be sounds, even if it is the incommunication of the time that they communicate: the sound of noise. Today's accelerated capitalism implies the fragmentation of historical time, encouraging the emptying of cultural products through postmodern logic. In music, fragmentation is gaining ground against the narrative of the record; single songs, torn from their overall context. Disconnection during ultra-connection: total noise.