Intonarumori luigi russolo biography
Luigi russolo intonarumori!
Much has been written about the Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo, most of it focused on his influential manifesto, The Art of Noises (1913), and the subsequent design and performances of his intonarumori (noise-intoner) instruments.
Music luigi russolo
Whether rightly or wrongly, Russolo is often considered, as Far Out magazine put it, “the pioneer of experimental music.”
To restrict Russolo to such a single and significant role is to simplify him, however.
Before concentrating on a new approach to music, Russolo was an active fine artist, creating some of the first Futurist paintings, those which helped provide the movement with a visual template. He was also a prominent Futurist agitator, signing his name to other of the movement’s manifestos, and participated in some of its most notable public disturbances.
He was an excellent prose writer, and a serious composer. In his later years, he returned to painting. He also returned to live in Italy from France in 1933, just as Mussolini’