The Art of Noise

Name: The Art of Noise: Destruction of Music by Futurist Machines
Brand: Deicide Press
SKU: 9781840686869
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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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The Art of Noise: Destruction of Music by Futurist Machines is a concentrated sourcebook of Italian Futurism’s key sound texts—cold, direct, and historically decisive.

The Art of Noise: Destruction of Music by Futurist Machines (Deicide Press)
Primary texts of Italian Futurism, noise music, and sound art
Russolo on The Art of Noises and Futurist noise machines
Pratella’s key Futurist music manifestos
Expanded edition includes Marinetti’s 1909 manifesto
128 pages, English; published 1 May 2023
15.24 × 0.84 × 22.86 cm
ISBN: 9781840686869

About The Art of Noise

The Art of Noise: Destruction of Music by Futurist Machines collects the core Futurist writings that treat sound as a weapon against tradition. The tone is programmatic, technical, and unusually readable. It helps trace how noise music begins as theory before it becomes genre.

The book centers on Luigi Russolo’s manifesto The Art of Noises and related texts on Futurist noise machines. It also includes Francesco Balilla Pratella’s key music manifestos. This expanded edition adds F. T. Marinetti’s 1909 manifesto, anchoring the movement’s wider agenda.

Beyond the headline texts, you get contextual material and a chronology. For collectors of Italian Futurism and sound art, this is a compact reference that connects music, ideology, and visual culture.

About Luigi Russolo, Francesco Balilla Pratella, and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Luigi Russolo wrote The Art of Noises as a 1913 letter to Pratella and developed the intonarumori (noise instruments), making him central to Futurist sound theory.

Francesco Balilla Pratella authored the Manifesto of the Futurist Musicians (1910) and helped define Futurism’s musical programme.

F. T. Marinetti wrote the Manifesto of Futurism (1909), establishing the movement’s rhetorical engine and its fixation on speed and machinery.

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