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Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners

Nov 12, ’09 7:12 AM

I’m planning to attend “Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners” tonight, part of the Performa biennial. For the event, composer Luciano Chessa reconstructed “intonarumori” or instruments originally devised by noted Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo in 1913. During the evening, a number of musicians will perform original compositions using the instruments. You can view a quick teaser video below.

I discovered Luciano Chessa’s work through a podcast my friend Rick Bahto recorded for Old First Church Concerts last year, which includes Louganis, Quadri da una citta phantasma, and additional commentary. You can listen to the full podcast here.

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Speaker Synths by Lesley Flanigan

May 23, ’08 6:19 AM

I went to ITP’s Spring MFA Show last week and came across this awesome project by artist Lesley Flanigan. Titled “Speaker Synths,” each wooden speaker produces feedback according to the position and direction of a suspended contact mic. For performance, Flanigan layers her own voice over live manipulation and pre-recorded samples of the instruments. She demo-ed the synths every half hour during ITP’s show and they were LOUD. See below for two mp3s I took off her site.

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