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.
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.
