Tomorrow Never Knows : The Experimentalism of The Beatles
by Ade Rowe Experimentalism has always played a part in The Beatles recording methods. From the accidental guitar feedback at the start of 1964's I Feel Fine, to the white noise descent on the last three minutes of 1969's I Want You (She's So Heavy), The Beatles, along with their producer George Martin, constantly experimented with ways to push musical boundaries and break new ground in the recording studio. However, experimentalism in music wasn't a new creation that was birthed by The Beatles. There has always been a level of musical experimentalism existing in one form or another, The Beatles just injected it into popular music and thus created a new kind of sound. As far back as the 1910's, the futurist art movement, most notably, Italian painter Luigi Russolo, experimented with sounds and noises in the truest sense. Russolo wrote a manifesto entitled The Art of Noises, which posed the point that the future of composition laid within the industrial sounds and