The art of noise constitutes one of the most original edges that Italian Futurism had. With all the disruptive violence of the historical avant-gardes, Luigi Russolo, painter and close friend of Filippo Marinetti, proposed noise as a fundamental musical element and generator of new acoustic pleasures, laying the foundations for later genres such as concrete music, noise and music. electronics. With the modern city as a base, the ear was to Russolo what the eye to Baudelaire. Crowds, factories, new technologies. The art of noise is, at the same time, poetry and music theory.
Translated directly from Italian and fully into Spanish for the first time, this edition includes the futurist manifesto of the art of noise, written in 1913, its repercussions and the description of its machine-instruments, the intonarumori. Prologue by the great Italian composer Luciano Chessa, The Art of N...read more
