Futurist Composers
 

Looselips recommended me a Italian Futurist album last week, and I listened to it, and I was amazed. From beginning to end, fantastic composers. I want to start somewhere, but the guy I wanted to start with(Luigi Grandi) seems to have limited information. I can't even find list of the name of his works...

Any rate, it's brilliant music with twisted ideals. I recommend any fan of classical to check out:

Wow, those pieces are great. Thanks for posting. The second piece is really quite interesting, and it reminds me of another piece of music that I can't recall at the moment.

The Grandi one sounds like a soundtrack to an old Looney Toons cartoon - I don't much care for it.

The Guitini one is beautiful.

i liked it. it's really great. nice vid. keep up the good work!

Electroacoustic/noise music from 1913. If that doesn't amaze you then I don't know what will... (I'm really surprised there isn't already a thread on him)



This is from the Russian Futurism movement, actually... Composed in 1922, it uses recordings of planes, guns, singing, marching, sirens, etc to create a piece of music that you could call "proto-industrial." It's really quite amazing, and I think it's on par with Russolo's electroacoustic pieces. It's ominous, chilling, sad, and the man put a lot of work into it. The least you could do is give it a listen. :)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg

A great starting point for anyone new to futurist music.

Yea, I downloaded that recently. The only only tracks that really grabbed my attention were the ones by the Russolos and "Cinque Sintesi Radiofoniche" by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Although, I'll admit that the piano pieces are very interesting and unique...

Learning to appreciate Russolo more, and more every day. I think it's safe to say he may be the most creative musician of the last two centuries, and in contendership for all time.

There is an amazing album created by Hugo Race and Mario Merola it´s called "Merola Matrix" it mixes opera, classical with electronic and ambient. If you can´t find it write me, i´ll share it with you. sonicore2000@gmail.com

It's funny that no one actually mentions this. Isn't cinema music based on classical instruments a modern/futuristic music and yet, easy to listen to?
The basic Idea behind music is the movements between the notes in order to create a stimulation of our feelings. it can make you angry, it can make you sad, happy, loved, confused... etc etc...
however, noises are not music although they are fascinating as an IDEA.
I really believe that there should be a visible line between "original noise" and future music.

Love this!!

Actually, as long as you make it with a guitar, and throw it in a verse-chorus song, 99% of rockers will appreciate complete nonmelodic noise as music. Or, take hip-hop, which often assembles sounds entirely ignoring their pitches just on how they sound. Pop can be argued a lot of the same way.

In fact, noise music has infested various aspects of mainstream rock dating back to the 60s. I mean, Where would The Who be without the screechy feedbacky stuff? It's just... it has to be presented around music in a certain way to help people in disguising to themselves the fact they like it. I think it's a natural side effect of electronic amplification.

Question: are the composers mentioned in this thread futurist in aesthetic or ideology? I've always been under the impression Futurism was tied tightly to Fascism (not National Socialism)...

I know the in the early stages of the USSR futurist aesthetics, especially in architecture, were the official state style for a time but this was abandoned after a few years.

Ideology. The Italian Futurist composers were tightly bound with the movement itself. I think even Filippo Tommaso Marinetti himself composed a few pieces.

When I listen to the music above I'll try hard to remember what futufist is and try to find the futurist elements in them, yet I just can't well appriciated them.:o:

However, I would like piano music like this. Don't I have good taste ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4urjF1JOKw4

I don't understand, how is that video relevant at all?

See, this is what the futurists were talking about. Inferiority of the human form in instrument playing!!!

There is no relevance at all. I just like that piece of piano music.:wave: