Luigi Russolo
Italy, 1909–1947
Italian Futurist painter and composer. His manifesto 'The Art of Noises' (1913) and the invention of noise machines (intonarumori) laid the conceptual foundation of 20th-century noise music.
MusicRoots documents 1 artist who influenced Luigi Russolo and 3 artists Luigi Russolo influenced in turn. Every connection cites a published source.
Who influenced Luigi Russolo?
- Claude Debussy — Debussy's harmonic freedom was cited by Russolo as part of the movement toward an expanded sonic palette that fed his noise manifesto.
Which artists did Luigi Russolo influence?
- Pierre Schaeffer — Russolo's manifesto 'The Art of Noises' is the direct conceptual predecessor of Schaeffer's idea of turning recorded sound into musical material.
- Arseny Avraamov — Russolo and Italian Futurism were the ideological predecessor of Avraamov's industrial sonic radicalism in the 'Symphony of Sirens'.
- Merzbow — Akita has named Russolo's Art of Noises the ancestral manifesto of his practice — noise as autonomous art, a century on.