MUS 114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Luigi Russolo, Avant-Garde, Sergei Diaghilev
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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. Roars, thunderings, explosions, hissing roars, bangs, booms whistling, hissing, puffing. Many current artists have become interested in russolo and have reconstructed his instruments. Still wished to deploy his instruments in concert settings. Still thought of his noise-devices as musical instruments. The awakening of the city : his composition. Notated with blocks of duration for each musical device all sustaining sounds! Out-doing satie? the compulsive reading of sound as a time measurer phonometrologist. Russolo"s concerts were scandalous events, but enthusiastically greeted by other avant-gardists. Satie, stravinsky, antheil, diaghilev, mondrian, ezra pound, ravel were fans. But there is little more than cult interest in russolo as a composer or figure in music history. In art history and the history of ideas, he is crucial.
