What is music? It is the constant effort to codify and stratify noise and silence. […] Listening to music is listening to all noise, realizing that its appropriation and control is a reflection of power, that it is essentially political. […]All music, any organisation of sounds is then a tool for the creation of consolidation of a community, of a totality. It is what links a power center to its subjects, and thus, more generally, it is an attribute of power in all of its forms. Therefore, any theory of power today must include a theory of the localization of noise and its endowment with form.