Description

The music and noise manifestos of the Italian Futurists formed a blueprint for sonic warfare waged against traditionalism, a radical new agenda played out with machines primed for maximal acoustic destruction and aimed at the negation of all existing value systems. THEe ^ARTe ^OFe ^NOISE collects together these and other writings for the first time in English, showing how the origins of modern noise music actually date from a century ago, forming an invaluable insight into Futurist thought and its most enduring and relevant legacies, and revealing how an understanding of noise-art is key to a complete comprehension of Futurist painting.

THEe ^ARTe ^OFe ^NOISE includes five key Futurist manifestos: Luigi Russolo's The Art of Noises and The Futurist Noise Machines, and Francesco Balilla Pratella's Manifesto of Futurist Musicians, Technical Manifesto of Futurist Music, and Destruction of Quadrature; plus Carlo Carra 's related sensory manifesto The Painting of Sounds, Noises and Smells; Bruno Corra's notes on Chromatic Music; proto-Futurist Ferrucchio Busoni's visionary and influential Sketch for a New Aesthetic of Sound Art; a historical introduction on Futurist music and its legacy; and a chronology of Futurist music and noise.