Jacques AttailiThinkers

Music is defined only by the fact that it gives structure to noise.

Music is a process of structuring noise that mirrors our political process for structuring community.

Music is a mirror for its organization resembles the current organization of our society.

Music is a prophesy because its styles and economic organization are ahead of the rest of society as it explores, much faster than material reality can, the entire range of possibilities in a given code.

Music is ritual murder, a sublimation of murderous noise to create order and political integration.

Noise is, to the old order, harmony to the new.

Noise is the raw material which, when given structure, is called music.

Noise is violence, and music is but a channelization of that violence, a sublimation or ritual murder undertaken to create order and political integration.

Noise is a resonance that interferes with the audition of a message in the process of emission.

Noise is any disruption of any social process, any source of pain. At the extreme