condition (discs/cover): NM/NM Includes 20-page booklet with text in Italian and English. The sound of the Italian avant-garde 1909-1935! First edition on Multhipla Records, Gianni Sassi's label dedicated to avant-garde music and performance. Music and words from the Italian Futurist movement, featuring original recordings and contemporary performances.
Luigi Russolo's Esempi Sonori documents his revolutionary Intonarumori (noise intoners) – mechanical noise-generators that realized his manifesto L'Arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noises, 1913). Includes the legendary fragment Risveglio di una città (The Awakening of a City), a 30-second symphony of engine-like sounds celebrating the Futurist passion for machines and metropolis.
F.T. Marinetti's Cinque Sintesi Radiofoniche captures the founder's visionary radio experiments. Musical works by Francesco Balilla Pratella (La Guerra), Luigi Grandi, Silvio Mix, Franco Casavola, Aldo Giuntini, and Alfredo Casella performed by Daniele Lombardi, Italy's leading interpreter of Futurist music.
Includes 20-page booklet with text in Italian and English. 2-2 realized on 24.4.1979 2-3 extract from EMI 3C 065-17982/A 2-6 from Columbia 78rpm IQ 3661 - CB 10633 ("Gli eroi della nostra guerra") 2-8 from player piano roll DUO-ART D227, released in 1925 2-9 and 2-10 from 78 rpm R 6915, matrix BK 145/11/13 and 4, later transferred to magnetic tape Intonarumori ricostruiti da M.Abate e P.Verardo per gli ASAC/Biennale di Venezia in occasione della mostra su L.Russolo curata da G.F.Maffina (1977).
