• Cover of The Art of Noise – Destruction of Music by Futurist Machines, featuring abstract painting by Giacomo Balla.
  • Back cover of The Art of Noise with synopsis and quotes by Busoni and Pratella.
  • Book spine and angled view of The Art of Noise showing title and authors: Russolo, Pratella, Marinetti.
  • Title page and copyright info of The Art of Noise, published by Deicide Press in 2023.
  • First page of Francesco Balilla Pratella’s Manifesto of Futurist Musicians, dated 1910.
  • Opening of Technical Manifesto of Futurist Music by Francesco Balilla Pratella, March 1911.
  • Opening page of Ferruccio Busoni’s essay Sketch for a New Aesthetic of Sound Art, written in 1906.
  • Excerpt from The Painting of Sounds, Noises and Smells discussing silence, sound, and sensory forms.
  • Classification of noises in The Art of Noise, listing sound families like rumbles, roars, and shouts.
  • Diagram and text from The Art of Noise explaining the relationship between rhythm, tone, movement, and time signature, featuring a vertical acrostic of the word “SIGNATURE.”
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The Art of Noise

The Art of Noise: Destruction of Music by Futurist Machines

Destruction of Music by Futurist Machines
Luigi Russolo, Francesco Balilla Pratella, and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
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A groundbreaking collection of Futurist music manifestos that laid the foundation for noise music and sonic radicalism.

Paperback, 15.0 x 23.0 cm, 0.25 kg , 128 pages
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About the Book

The Art of Noise: Destruction of Music by Futurist Machines gathers the key sonic manifestos of Italian Futurism — including Luigi Russolo’s influential The Art of Noises — for the first time in English. These radical texts envisioned a new music of machines, destruction, and modernity, challenging classical aesthetics and laying the intellectual groundwork for noise, industrial, and experimental sound art. This expanded edition includes writings by Russolo, Pratella, Carrà, Corra, Busoni, and Marinetti, offering a deep insight into the Futurist obsession with sound, rhythm, and revolution. Essential reading for artists, musicians, and scholars of sound theory and avant-garde history.

Paperback, 15.0 x 23.0 cm, 0.25 kg, 128 pages, English
ISBN: 9781840686869

About the Author

Luigi Russolo (1885–1947) was an Italian Futurist painter, composer, and inventor. He authored the 1913 manifesto The Art of Noises and pioneered noise music with his experimental instruments called Intonarumori. Russolo’s noise concerts in the 1910s and 1920s laid the foundation for modern sound art and industrial music.

Francesco Balilla Pratella (1880–1955) was an Italian composer, musicologist, and a major advocate of Futurism in music. His manifestos called for a complete break with traditional forms and promoted a radical sonic vocabulary for the machine age.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944) was an Italian poet, editor, and the founder of the Futurist movement. Best known for his 1909 Futurist Manifesto, Marinetti shaped the aesthetics of modernism and championed the artistic embrace of speed, violence, and technology.

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Country of origin: United Kingdom

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