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[wavyarms]

I'm working on a presentation tomorrow for Choral Lit. It's work - I have to sit down and concentrate hard and make myself do it - but it's also kind of fun. I'm reminded that if this is the most intense work I have to do in music school, life ain't bad.

For your edification, a brief explanation of Futurism, excerpted from my handout:

Luigi Russolo, a painter, who published his Art of Noises in 1913, was the first important Futurist musician, and created his own noise machines, which he labeled Intonarumori. The best explanation of Futurism in music may be to look at the arrangement of Russolo’s Intonarumori into six categories, which he intended to form the basis of the Futurist orchestra:

1	2	3	4	5	6
Rumbles	Whistles	Whispers	Screeches	Noises	Voices of
Roars	Hisses	Murmurs	Creaks	obtained by	animals
Explosions	Snorts	Mumbles	Rustles	percussion on	and men:
Crashes		Grumbles	Buzzes	on metal,	Shouts, Screams,
Splashes		Gurgles	Crackles	wood, skin,	Groans, Shrieks,
Booms			Scrapes	stone,	Howls, Laughs,
				terracotta, etc.	Wheezes, Sobs

Comments

[mixedborder.livejournal.com]

Futurism wasn't just in music--it embraced all kinds of things, including food. I once heard a lecture on Futurist food, and it was mind-boggling! They'd use things like machine oil and garnishes of ball bearings.

[wavyarms.livejournal.com]

I was wondering! I knew it encompassed more than music - it started out as a visual arts movement in the beginning, I believe - and one of my articles said it encompassed food, but I was wondering how. Now I know. Thanks - maybe I'll bring that up in my presentation. :)

[wavyarms.livejournal.com]

I mentioned the machine oil and ball bearings in my presentation. Everyone was appropriately grossed out. :)

cool!

[ltlbird.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this! I know very little about modern music movements, so now I am a touch more informed. :)

[ex-a517dogg70.livejournal.com]

So you mean, kind of like Rob Zombie.

[wavyarms.livejournal.com]

Who?

[ex-a517dogg70.livejournal.com]

a really bad heavy metal band. they have their own horror movie, called something like '10,000 corpses.'