Antonio Russolo was an Italian

Italy

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 Futurist

Futurism (art)

Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane and the industrial city...

 composer, brother of the more famous Futurist composer and theorist Luigi Russolo

Luigi Russolo

Luigi Russolo was an Italian Futurist painter and composer, and the author of the manifesto The Art of Noises . He is often regarded as one of the first noise music experimental composers with his performances of "noise concerts" in 1913-14 and then again after World War I, notably in Paris in 1921...

. The 78 rpm record made by him in 1921 is the only surviving sound recording that features the original intonarumori. Both pieces, Corale and Serenata, combined conventional orchestral music set against the famous noise machines.

Audio

Corale and Serenata by Antonio Russolo can be heard on the audio CDs Musica Futurista: The Art of Noises and on Futurism & Dada Reviewed.

MP3 audio file of Corale, Serenata (1924) from Ubu.com archive