The Art Of Noise: Destruction Of Music By Futurist Machines - Softcover

Russolo, Luigi; Pratella, Francesco Balilla; Marinetti, F.T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840686863 ISBN 13: 9781840686869

Publisher: Deicide Press, 2023

Synopsis

The music and noise manifestos of the Italian Futurists formed a blueprint for sonic warfare waged against traditionalism, a radical new agenda played out with machines primed for maximal acoustic destruction and aimed at the negation of all existing value systems. THE ART OF NOISE collects together these and other writings for the first time in English, showing how the origins of modern noise music actually date from a century ago, forming an invaluable insight into Futurist thought and its most enduring and relevant legacies, and revealing how an understanding of noise-art is key to a complete comprehension of Futurist painting.
THE ART OF NOISE collects five key Futurist manifestos: Luigi Russolo’s The Art Of Noises and The Futurist Noise Machines, and Balilla Pratella’s Manifesto Of Futurist Musicians, Technical Manifesto Of Futurist Music, and Destruction Of Quadrature; plus Carlo Carrà’s related sensory manifesto The Painting Of Sounds, Noises And Smells; Bruno Corra’s notes on Chromatic Music; Ferrucchio Busoni’s visionary and influential Sketch For A New Aesthetic Of Sound Art; a historical introduction on Futurist music and its legacy; and a chronology of Futurist music and noise.
This new expanded edition includes F.T. Marinetti’s original 11-point Manifesto Of Futurism, first published in 1909.
Marinetti, Russolo and Pratella are founding members of Italian Futurism, whose work has immense art-historical importance.

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About the Authors

Luigi (30 April 1885 – 4 February 1947) was an Italian Futurist painter, composer, builder of experimental musical instruments, and the author of the manifesto The Art of Noises (1913). He is often regarded as one of the first noise music experimental composers with his performances of noise music concerts in 1913–14 and then again after World War I, notably in Paris in 1921. He designed and constructed a number of noise-generating devices called Intonarumori. Russolo and F.T. Marinetti gave the first concert of Futurist music, complete with intonarumori, in April 1914, causing a riot.

Francesco Balilla Pratella February 1, 1880 – May 17, 1955) was an Italian composer, musicologist and essayist, and one of the leading advocates of Futurism in Italian music.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (22 December 1876 – 2 December 1944) was an Italian poet, editor, art theorist, and founder of the Futurist movement. Marinetti is best known as the author of the first Futurist Manifesto, which was written and published in 1909, and as a co-author of the Fascist Manifesto, in 1919.

Edition details

• Publisher: Deicide Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1840686863
• ISBN 13: 9781840686869
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 128