Luciano Chessa: Music the dead can hear - Occult presences in Luigi Russolo's Art of Noises (Histories and Theories of Sound)
Luciano Chessa examines the work of Italian Futurist, painter and musician Luigi Russolo, presenting a reading of the mechanical sound synthesizers, the intonarumori, that he began to create in 1913. It traces the roots of Russolo\u2019s instrument to Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s noisemakers, and then reestablishes the previously unacknowledged prominence of occultism, including theosophy, in early twentieth-century Italian culture.\n\nhttps://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/luciano-chessa-music-the-dead-can-hear\n\nHistories and Theories of Sound\n3 July 2018\nFlorence Peel Centre, Fitzroy\nPresented by Liquid Architecture and Discipline\n\nFinancial support from patrons at any level has a resounding impact on our work. You can support Liquid Architecture\u2019s weekly\xa0podcast and our online journal Disclaimer, for new thinking and writing on listening and sound through a Patreon subscription, for as little as $5 a month. \n\nhttps://www.patreon.com/liquidarchitecture\n\nFor the past 20 years, Liquid Architecture has been Australia\u2019s leading organisation for artists working with sound and listening. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound and listening.