Electronic Music 411 - Luigi Russolo - The Art of Noises Manifesto -

EM411.com
Electronic Music Production, MP3's, Live Shows, Blogs and Community

Share your music and get feedback.

vveerrgg's emID

Toroto, Ontario, Canada

Message me

View my emID

Luigi Russolo - The Art of Noises Manifesto

Store

Author: vveerrgg on November 13 2006

Viewed 1775 times. 6 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.

People who enjoyed reading this: Roshi, bodo, FailedSitcom, mlbot, hecanjog, dach

--> I was doing some research on an article I'm writing when I came across this manifesto. I thought it was really interesting considering that it's almost 100 years old and this guy is just as on point now as then... Here's the link to the article I read that made me smile and think we're not as far off base as some would believe.

Luigi Russolo Art Of Noise Manifesto link

Digg it | Delicious

Read vveerrgg's other blogs.vveerrgg's Recent Blogs

Long Live Vinyl (mastered and manufactured) in Detroit (Tags: )

Almost famous and other media successes (Tags: )

put your hands up for Detroit... (Tags: )

*WOOT*my first music video... (could this be a new movement) (Tags: )

313 local Mike Huckaby in an audio interview (Tags: )

Comments

11/13/06 + Roshi

It is a classic and a very cool article...can't remember who I heard of it from. Maybe mlbot.

Recent blogs: Summer Reading - The rest is noise, oogazer set, Origins of Butterzone?

11/13/06 + bodo

Classic indeed

"Ancient life was all silence. In the 19 century, with the invention of the machine, noise was born Today, noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibilities of men"
Luigi Russolo 1913

Word!

11/13/06 + mlbot

its a good little book... the Art of NoiseS. Art of noise was the band. ;)

Recent blogs: Dumb Machine LP - Maces of Disruption, Puppy, Best Synths For Not Making Music

11/13/06 + vveerrgg

crazy as this sounds.... this whole time I've been reading it as Noise an not Noises.

Guess that band had more of an impact on me then I realized. hehe

Recent blogs: Long Live Vinyl (mastered and manufactured) in Detroit, Almost famous and other media successes, put your hands up for Detroit...

11/13/06 + mlbot

huh, this is supposedly an excerpt of one of Russolo's compositions
link

Recent blogs: Dumb Machine LP - Maces of Disruption, Puppy, Best Synths For Not Making Music

11/13/06 + flies

also see link

Recent blogs: grade school, bohdan pacynsky, meditate?

11/13/06 + naw

yup the futurists had a major impact on sound making histroically...

Recent blogs: naw.music update, Announcing Vague Terrain 09: Rise of the VJ, naw winter news

11/14/06 + implexgrace

russolo was, arguable, the godfather of electronic music..

varese is the other one.

Recent blogs: The Black Tapes, Working Method #1: Live Demo 06.17.08, Through Luminescent Passages I

11/14/06 + joerex

yah! russolo and other italian futurist composers were some of the first to suggest the use of "noise" or traditionally "non-musical" sounds in music...to reflect the increasingly modern world. the futurist music-making noise devices we have are all reproductions as the originals were destroyed.

russolo was directly a big influence on cage and consequently the french and maybe german electronic pioneers.

Recent blogs: ModsquadRedux Redux (pong~ and trigger w/ zigzag~ versions)

edited: Nov 14 2006 + Roshi

Did you know there was a futurist cookbook? link

With recipes for meals such as:

Heroic Winter Dinner
Summer Luncheon for Painters and Sculptors
Springtime Meal of The Word In Liberty
Autumn Musical Dinner
Nocturnal Love Feast
Extremist Banquet
Dynamic Dinner
Tactile Dinner Party
Declaration of Love Dinner

I've always thought it would funny to open a futurist ice cream shop where the names of the flavors were like "metallic angst", "electric velocity", and "cloud zing".

Recent blogs: Summer Reading - The rest is noise, oogazer set, Origins of Butterzone?

11/15/06 + mrmistermr

ye mert this is i read is when i was a student. famous piece of garb about the ol noisy noisy etc... rosso sounds a bit like a lettuce.

Recent blogs: heartbeat sample, using pt 002 for all audio from my mac, b og

11/15/06 + sciculz

that futurist cookery thing is great

i've got a printed version of 'the art of noises' which is MUCH longer than that excerpt
that's just one little letter from the middle.
not sure if it's still in print tho.

11/15/06 + mlbot

It is in print... pendragon press
not many bookstores have it, but almost any store will special order it

link

Art of Noises
by Luigi Russolo

ISBN: 1-57647-114-4; 978-1-57647-114-2
Price (US Funds): $36.00 paper

Recent blogs: Dumb Machine LP - Maces of Disruption, Puppy, Best Synths For Not Making Music

11/16/06 + filmjolk

where the futurists were wrong is that they wanted to REproduce sound. not to produce new sounds, never heard before.
that was the drama of edgar var�se.

Recent blogs: filmj�lk - mononucleosis ep (heldernacht records), various - portr�t (tripostal netlabel)

You must be a member to reply or post. signup or login