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Performa is delighted to present “Music For 16 Futurist Noise Intoners,” an evening-length concert of original scores and newly commissioned compositions for the intonarumori, or “noise-intoners” As part of its celebration of the 100th anniversary of Italian Futurism, the Performa 09 biennial, in collaboration with the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) and SFMOMA, has invited Luciano Chessa to direct a reconstruction project to produce accurate replicas the legendary instruments (8 noise families of 1-3 instruments each, in various registers) that Russolo built in Milan in the summer of 1913. As the first instruments capable of creating and manipulating noises through entirely mechanical processes, the intonarumori can be considered to be the original analog synthesizer, and the ancestors to the latest electronic synthesizers used today.
With Blixa Bargeld, John Butcher, Luciano Chessa, Joan La Barbara, Nick Hallett, Pauline Oliveros, Mike Patton, Anat Pick, Elliott Sharp, Ulrich Krieger, Jennifer Walshe with Tony Conrad, Ghostigital with Skuli Sverrison, Finboggi Petursson, and Casper Electronics.
Chessa will present the first modern live performances of two early Futurist pieces—the legendary fragment from Russolo’s spooky “Risveglio di una città” (1913), and “La pioggia nel pineto antidannunziana,” a newly-discovered 1916 piece for intonarumori and “Words in Freedom” by Futurist playwright and poet Paolo Buzzi–as well as “L’acoustique ivrese”, his brand new composition for 16 intonarumori and voice on a poem also by Buzzi. An incredible group of musicians and composers from the experimental music world—including Einstuerzende Neubauten frontman and Nick Cave collaborator Blixa Bargeld, avant-garde saxophonist John Butcher, Deep Listening pioneer Pauline Oliveros, Faith No More and Mr. Bungle vocalist Mike Patton, sound and text-based performer Anat Pick, avant-garde musician Elliott Sharp, and composer and vocalist Jennifer Walshe collaborating with composer and film/video artist Tony Conrad, among others—have been commissioned by Performa to create and perform brand new compositions for the instruments.
A Performa Commission with SFMOMA and EMPAC. Produced and presented by Performa. Curated by Luciano Chessa with Esa Nickle. Thanks to AIR, Art International Radio and the Clocktower Gallery for rehearsal spaces.
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4:05
is this darksouls?
As an old Throbbing Gristle fan, this hits the spot for me.
Amazon warehouse type beat
france gonna go fast
FABULOSO 2020 #FUTURISMO
What tha butt?
get to the point every minute you're speaking a futurist is resuscitating to get annoyed at you …
Tela
Másters…
Nothing like a bunch of weird people and weird things.
It sounds beautifully violent.
Звучит отлично в умелых руках.! Футуристы жгли, вдохновлённые звуками города.
Дадаизм + интонарумори + Джордж де Кирико + А. Платонов > бомба, должна получится просто бомба!
The music of the second concert is like the sound I would hear in the car driving fast on the road headed to hell after death. It is quite an experience.
This is genius
Read the Art of Noise for class, thanks for putting these performances online I really appreciate getting to experience Russolo's vision!
Very Crazy "Composer" and very crazy Players… Madmen, lunatics !!!
Luigi Russolo!!
OK everything alright. BUT WTF CAMERA WALK. I just feel dizzy!:(
Que lindeza!
Jesus, this is Post Industrial Predating Throbbing Gristle / Coil by 70 years
c'est merdeilleux …
This is absolutely beautiful.
This is true Avant Garde.
I am currently recording an album and this is really inspiring
9:30 sounds like the monolith song from 2001
@23:11 I thought that was John Zorn before I read the summary
Its incredible that Russolo built this machines in 1913! Way ahead of his time! People are stupid! We cant just wake up one day and produce glitch or dubstep music. there is a history behind everything and there are scientists and musicians experimenting and spending their lifetime to bring up an understanding. If you would go back to that era and play your favourite pop or EDM track to them, they be like WTF is this shit…
Everyone stating this isn't music could probably do to ask themselves how they felt when their parents said exactly the same thing about their favourite bands when they were 15 years old.
If new music didn't sound strange and alien and new to old people, it wouldn't need to exist.
this sounds like the soundtrack to ju-on
It fits neatly between musical composition and layered tracks of foley.
sounds like the choir sections from Dark Souls music
I love Russolo
very cool
The camera work is incredibly annoying
sounds like a scene from 2001
This is fantastic. I wish I could record the audio of the full performance.
cool
Great experimental Futurist music with the "Intonarumori" ("tuningnoises"). Luigi Rusolo was a really Genius, one of the greatest Italian contemporary composer and manufacturer (He invented the instument!)…great expience before Jimi Hendrix!!!!!