Intonarumori are experimental musical instruments invented and built by the Italian futurist Luigi Russolo between roughly 1910 and 1930. Russolo built these instruments to perform the music outlined in his Art of Noises manifesto. Most of Russolo’s instruments were destroyed in Paris when the city was bombed during World War II.
About Intonarumori in brief
Intonarumori are experimental musical instruments invented and built by the Italian futurist Luigi Russolo between roughly 1910 and 1930. Russolo built these instruments to perform the music outlined in his Art of Noises manifesto. Most of Russolo’s instruments were destroyed in Paris when the city was bombed during World War II. Original sketches still exist, however, along with a few sound recordings of the original instruments.
Three collections of reconstructions exist. Dutch sound artist Wessel Westerveld made a series of replicas. In 2012 Lee Ranaldo wrote a score for the instruments at the Performa Festival in NYC. In 2015 the Italian band King Tongue staged a tribute to Russolo at Circolo Filologico in Milan. Miroslav Piclak’s Intonarori Concerto, for three soloists and chamber orchestra, premiered in Prague in 2018.
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