Futurism was a movement in Italy in the beginning of the 20th Century which,
as far as music was concerned, believed any and all sounds should be used in
the compositional process. In his "The Art of Noises" (Futurist Manifesto),
Luigi Russolo stated that [the Futurists] had grown tired of the normal
instrumentation of pieces by Wagner, etc. (although he did say that
Wagner/Stravinsky's work was interesting tonally), and yearned for different
sources. He named machines, water, trains, etc. as important materials of
music and urged composers to use them to their benefit.
As similar ideas surfaced with people like John Cage, Varese, etc. and, as
the technology became available for both musique concrete (Schaeffer, Henri,
Ferrari, Reich) and early electronic music (Stockhausen and the like), the
Futurists ideas became more easily translated into realized compositions.
BTW, John Cage prophecized (however the fuck that's spelled!) that the
turntable would be an incredible musical instrument... If he could only hear
qbert/koala/mmmike/etc now!
z
quoted 11 lines From: Sissoko13@aol.com
>From: Sissoko13@aol.com
>To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
>Subject: [idm] Futurism
>Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 13:25:47 EST
>
>Can any one elaborate on futurism and how it relates to electornic music ?
>
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