Inquiry 1 Futurist Music Experimental itinerary No. Opening: Tuesday 15 October from 6pm to 9pm. The Galleria Allegra Ravizza is proud to present its first experimental thematic itinerary geared towards understanding the use of noise, with an exhibition in various stages, tracing its development from with the earliest manifestos of Futurist music by Francesco Balilla Pratella, via the great inventions of Luigi Russolo, right up to the s and the revolutionary musical works of John Cage.
Futurismo originated in Italy as an inevitable and unstoppable movement, as an expression of that need for change and novelty arising from the spread of new scientific discoveries. In this period of great ferment, the figure of Francesco Balilla Pratella Lugo, — Ravenna, is of fundamental importance as the initiator and leading exponent of musical Futurism.
I calmly laugh and reply with indifference: I have risen beyond the past, and so I call out loud for young musicians to rally around the flag of Futurism. In the 19 th century, with the invention of machines, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the very sensitivity of men. The audience appears to be totally unprepared for a musical performance of this kind: hearty laughter, violent cries, shouts and whistling fill the theatre, drowning out the sound of the engine.
This is of enormous importance, in my view, for while Russolo carries out attempts to create a complete orchestra of intonarumori, it seems to me that you absolutely must give the leading example of a mixed orchestra, or rather, of a usual orchestra enhanced by the presence of intonarumori. Think this over. A few months later, on 15 May , the famous literary magazine Lacerba publishes the first score for intonarumori and orchestra, written by Balilla Pratella.
Balilla Pratella begins to sketch out the three-act work in , completing it the following year. In the first act, the man Dro is not a pilot as such, but he is so only potentially. He is driven by instinct, by the desire to surpass the lowness and corruption that surround him, by the aspiration towards the purification of the body and spirit.
