BFI celebrate 100 years of Russolo 'Art of Noises' manifesto

The British Film Institute are to mark a century since Luigi Russolo wrote the Futurist manifesto, The Art of Noises, with a special event at the BFI Southbank.

The event – taking place on 12 July -promises to take “electronic music back to its earliest home – not the nightclub or conservatoire, but the cinema”, showcasing proto-synthesiser sounds in the films of the 1920s. The evening will see a screening of Vsevolod Pudovkin’s 1926 film Mother, along with other short films and live music inspired by the times.

Russolo’s manifesto predicted that future musicians would “substitute for the limited variety of timbres that the orchestra possesses today the infinite variety of timbres in noises, reproduced with appropriate mechanisms”. He remains a figurehead pioneer of noise music to this day.

More info on the event here.

[via Dummy]