Luigi Russolo

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Luigi Russolo

Luigi Russolo ca. 1916
Background information
Birth name Luigi Russolo
Born 30 April 1883(1883-04-30)
Died February 4, 1947 (aged 63)
Genres Experimental music
Occupations "Machine music" pioneer
Futurist painter
Custom instrument builder
Years active 1901-1947
Luigi Russolo with his assistant Ugo Piatti and their Intonarumori (noise machines)

Luigi Russolo (April 30, 1885 – February 4, 1947) was an Italian Futurist painter and composer, and the author of the manifesto The Art of Noises (1913).[1] He is often regarded as one of the first noise music experimental composers with his performances of "noise concerts" in 1913-14 and then again after World War I, notably in Paris in 1921.[2] He is also one of the first theorists of electronic music.

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Ian Chilvers & John Glaves-Smith, A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art. Oxford University Press

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  1. ^ Ian Chilvers & John Glaves-Smith, A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art. Oxford University Press, p.619
  2. ^ Ian Chilvers & John Glaves-Smith, A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art. Oxford University Press, p. 620


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