Luciano Chessa examines the work of Italian Futurist, painter and musician Luigi Russolo, presenting a reading of the mechanical sound synthesizers, the intonarumori, that he began to create in 1913. It traces the roots of Russolo’s instrument to Leonardo da Vinci’s noisemakers, and then reestablishes the previously unacknowledged prominence of occultism, including theosophy, in early twentieth-century Italian culture.

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/luciano-chessa-music-the-dead-can-hear

Histories and Theories of Sound

3 July 2018

Florence Peel Centre, Fitzroy

Presented by Liquid Architecture and Discipline

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