Title of the compilation: Dada For Now. A Collection of Futurist and Dada Sound Works
Title: Luigi Russolo: Verglio di una citta (Track 23)
Publisher: ARK, Liverpool
Date: 1914, publ. 1985
Medium: record 30 cm
Luigi Russolo's musical version of new music from the sounds of metropolises and civilisation he described as follows:
"Ancient life was all silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men. […] Every manifestation of life is accompanied by noise. Noise is therefore familiar to our ears and has the power to remind us immediately of life itself. Musical sound, a thing extraneous to life and independent of it... has become to our ears what a too familiar face is to our eyes" (Luigi Russolo).
The 1914 piece Verglio di una citta was one of Russolo's very early works after the publication of his musical manifesto L'arte dei rumori (The Art of Noises) in 1913.
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