Luigi Russolo
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Luigi Carlo Filippo Russolo was an Italian Futurist painter, composer, builder of experimental musical instruments, and the author of the manifesto The Art of Noises. Russolo completed his secondary e
Russolo and his assistant Ugo Piatti in their Milan studio in 1913 with the Intonarumori (noise machines)
Souvenir d'une nuit (Memories of a Night), 1911 oil on canvas, 99 × 99 cm, private collection
Sintesi plastica dei movimenti di una donna, 1912 oil on canvas, Museum of Grenoble
Self-portrait with Skulls, 1909 painting
The Art of Noises
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The Art of Noises is a Futurist manifesto written by Luigi Russolo in a 1913 letter to friend and Futurist composer Francesco Balilla Pratella. In it, Russolo argues that the human ear has become accu
Intonarumori instruments built by Russolo and Ugo Piatti, photo published in Russolo's 1913 book The Art of Noises
photo of an Intonarumori concert with noise-machines
Russolo, 1913: score of en-harmonic notation; partitura for Intonarumori