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I'm sure most people here are aware of this Futurist artists' manifesto from the early 20th century.

I started to ponder the idea of a taxonomy of sound effects ~ til i stumbled across the Tags link:

acoustic ambiance ambience ambient analog atmosphere basic-waveform bass beat beep bell binaural bird birds break breath button car chord circuit city clean click crash crowd cymbal dance dark davood deep deep-space digital distorted distortion door drone drum drumloop drums dub echo effect electric electro electronic engine experimental extended female field-recording filter fm fx glitch granular guitar hard hardpcm hi-fi hi-tech high hit horror house household human idm industrial kick kitchen layer lead lofi long-reverb-tail loop low machine male metal metalic multi-sample multisample music nature noise note object pad people percussion percussive phoneme piano ppg press processed pulse radio rain random reaktor real recording reverb rhythm rhythmic roland sample saw sci-fi scratch sequence short snare sound sound-design sound-effect soundeffect soundscape space speech spring stereo street string switch syllables synth synthesis synthesizer synthetic technique techno thunder tom tone train trance trumpet unprocessed vocal voice waldorf water wave weird wind wood

This fascinates me, however the Art of Noises seems interested in how sounds might be categorized in terms of their pure sonic qualities, as opposed to what created the sound. For example 'slams' instead of 'door'.

I wonder how Russolo would consider synths and computer based music of today?

Rather than seeing sounds lumped into categories of what they are, I'd be interested to find a taxonomy of sounds organized by how they sound. It doesn;t matter if its fingers, twigs, or nuts - these kinds of sounds would be 'cracks'. Their source is irrelevant.

Is anyone pursuing this?

acoustic ambiance ambience ambient analog atmosphere basic-waveform bass beat beep bell binaural bird birds break breath button car chord circuit city clean click crash crowd cymbal dance dark davood deep deep-space digital distorted distortion door drone drum drumloop drums dub echo effect electric electro electronic engine experimental extended female field-recording filter fm fx glitch granular guitar hard hardpcm hi-fi hi-tech high hit horror house household human idm industrial kick kitchen layer lead lofi long-reverb-tail loop low machine male metal metalic multi-sample multisample music nature noise note object pad people percussion percussive phoneme piano ppg press processed pulse radio rain random reaktor real recording reverb rhythm rhythmic roland sample saw sci-fi scratch sequence short snare sound sound-design sound-effect soundeffect soundscape space speech spring stereo street string switch syllables synth synthesis synthesizer synthetic technique techno thunder tom tone train trance trumpet unprocessed vocal voice waldorf water wave weird wind wood

:lol: , just funny to see that my name is everywhere, :lol: