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Chapter 5 - Aesthetics, Music, Noise

from Part I - Origins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 May 2020

By
Brad Bucknell
Edited by
Anna Snaith
Anna Snaith
Affiliation:
King's College London
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The chapter specifically explores the Futurist aesthetics of noise as manifested in Luigi Russolo’s ‘noise machines,’ or ‘intonarumori.’ Noise, and composition with noises, folds in with the Futurists’ general affirmation of technological modernity and with their related aesthetic practices extolling the virtues of speed, violence and war. The chapter also ponders Futurist noise and its relationship to twelve-tone dissonance, and discovers a common spiritualist thread linking these musical formal practices. For Russolo, at least, the technical and spiritualist connections relate to Leonardo da Vinci’s own plans for music machines, and his general view art’s ‘spirituality.’

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FuturismnoiseintonarumoriRussolo Marinettitwelve-tone compositionspiritualismda Vincimodernist formtechnological modernitySchoenbergWebern
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Sound and Literature , pp. 114 - 132
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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