MUS 114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Citta, Luigi Russolo, Intonarumori
Document Summary
Italian, belongs to circle of futurists: celebrating technology, mechanization, anti-nostalgia, violence, revolution, militarization, originally a painter, went on to build noise instruments. Intonarumori noise generating devices to mimic the world of machine sounds and war: painting: the revolt (1911) Painting divided into segments: division and mechanization go together and breaking things down into parts is fundamental to mechanizing. Break down of regular windows of the building. Overall sense of breaking things into segments: painting: duchamp, nude descending a staircase (1912) Statement of opposition towards nude being something sensuous: russolo and his instruments. Intonarumori: mechanical devices with horns sticking out the front. Some were cranked, some were activated mechanically, some were electric: (cid:862)the art of noise(cid:863) (cid:894)1913(cid:895) russolo"s (cid:373)a(cid:374)ifesto traditional classical music is insufficient to capture the reality of modern humanity and our acoustical environment. We must expand the notion of music to include the noises and sounds of modern life.
