These were ‘noise machines’ and were used to perform specially composed music to express the “Art Of Noises”. Each box contained different mechanisms for making and controlling sound and were showcased in concert at the London Coliseum in 1914. The set-up looked like a cubist sculptural installation and in combining this with sound composition, sound-sculpture found its early Modern from. The Futurists also developed a kind of musical notation for playing these machines that was based on line, this meant that the ‘score’ was also a drawing and that drawings, and any visual material with definite lines could be ‘played’ as music…
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| Muiscal notation for Intonarumori by Russolo |
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For a 'flavour' of how the Intonarrumori sounded watch the video below:
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