L'Arte dei rumori
Features
Author: Luigi Russolo
Publisher: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia
Place of printing: Milan
Year of publication: 1916
Product Condition:
Pink satin binding with golden titles on leather gusset applied to the back, with abrasions: burnished back; faded dishes, especially at the edges, with dust spots and slight abrasions at the edges. Burnished cuts with dust spots; particularly darkened head cuts. The editorial paperback has not been preserved. Well preserved papers, with bluing at the edges. Text in Italian language.
Pages: 92, (2)
Format: In the eighth
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 20
Width: 16
Description
In 1913, in a letter to his musician friend Francesco Balilla Pratella, Luigi Russolo establishes what can be defined as the Manifesto of Futurist Music, then taken up again in 1916 in this volume published by the Futurist Editions of "Poesia". The heart of the new aesthetic can be summed up in this statement: “Futurist musicians must widen and enrich the field of sounds more and more. This responds to a need of our sensitivity. In fact, we note in today's brilliant composers a tendency towards more complicated dissonances. As they move further and further away from pure sound, they almost reach sound-noise. This need and this tendency can only be satisfied with the addition and substitution of noises for sounds ”. In the book there is a photographic portrait of the author and a photograph of his laboratory with the famous Intonarumori, the first prototype of the new instruments of the future. In full futurist style the dedication "To the dear and great futurist brothers Marinetti Boccioni Piatti Sant'Elia Sironi, who during the capture of Dosso Casina, on the flanks of the Altissimo, enjoyed with me the exhilarating enharmony of our 149
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