Luigi Russolo ca. 1916

Luigi Russolo (1885 Portogruaro (Veneto) - 1947 Cerro di Lavenio) was an Italian futurist painter composer and the author of Art of Noises (1913) and Musica Futurista. As indicated by the former title, he believed in and sought the use of noise in and as music, and even invented and built instruments: intonarumori ("intoners" or "noise machines"), mostly percussion, to create "noises" for performance. Unfortunately, none of the intonarumori survived World War II. Luigi Russolo, ca. ... Luigi Russolo, ca. ... 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... This article is about the art movement, futurism. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... In general usage, noise can be considered data without meaning; that is, data that is not being used to transmit a signal, but is simply produced as an unwanted by-product of other activities. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Wikicities has a wiki about Music: Music Look up Music in Wiktionary, the free dictionary All Music Guide: includes a comprehensive and flexible Genre and Style system MusicWiki: A Collaborative Music-related encyclopedia Science of Music: Multimedia exploration of the... An instrument is a concrete or abstract tool intended for a purpose other than mechanical work, in particular a refined one. ... Percussion instruments are played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped. ...

He worked closely with futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Luigi's brother Antonio Russolo also composed futurist music. Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (Born December 22, 1876 in Alexandria, Egypt. ... Antonio Russolo was a Futurist composer and brother of Luigi Russolo. ...

External links

• http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/noises.html The Art of Noises
• Luigi Russolo and the Italian Futurists (http://csunix1.lvc.edu/~snyder/em/russolo.html)
• Luigi Russolo and The Art of Noise (http://switch.sjsu.edu/switch/sound/articles/wendt/folder6/ng632.htm)
• THE SOUND W0RLD, INSTRUMENTS AND MUSIC OF LUIGI RUSSOLO (http://www.l-m-c.org.uk/texts/russolo.html) by Hugh Davies
• Peggy Guggenheim Collection: Luigi Russolo (http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/english/06_artists/russolo.htm)
• http://www.zakros.com/mica/soundart/f02/futurist.html
• JahSonic.com: Luigi Russolo (http://www.jahsonic.com/LuigiRussolo.html)
• Bob Osborn's Futurism: Luigi Russolo (http://www.futurism.org.uk/futurism.htm)

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Further reading

• UbuWeb Historical: Russolo's Art of Noise (http://www.ubu.com/historical/russolo/russolo.html)

Listening

• UbuWeb Dada for Now, 1985, UK (http://www.ubu.com/sound/dada.html) featuring Russolo's Verglio di una citta.