"Gonna jump down, turn aroun', pick a bail o' cotton"

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>From: Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Factory Music
>Date: Mon, Jan 27, 2003, 9:16 AM
>

> A couple of years ago there was a discussion on this list of factory music
> and Pound's sensitivity or insensitivity to the working man. The relevant
> postings can be found in the archive (http://lists.maine.edu); their
> subject lines were "music while you work" and "factory music'.
>
> I simply want to append to that discussion the following quotation from
> "Machine Art" (which is reprinted in Machine Art & Other Writings, the lost
> thought of the Italian years, ed. Maria Luisa Ardizzone, Duke Univ. Press
> 1996):
>
>    "The harmonization would consist (1) in bringing the different
> percussive speeds of the machinery into some regular proportion, where
> possible; (2) in establishing some proportion between the uninterrupted
> duration of the noises.
> [...]
> .. that a use of these recurrences  in proportion to each other will have
> some effect on human nerves; and that it can be combined with 'higher'
> recurrences known as notes, and that the resulting disturbance of the
> atmosphere may even 'give pleasure' or at any rate be less nerve racking
> and wearing than wholly unorganized clatter."
>
> Tim Romano