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’s instrument to Leonardo da Vinci’s noisemakers, and then reestablishes the previously unacknowledged prominence of occultism, including theosophy, in early twentieth-century Italian culture. https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/luciano-chessa-music-the-dead-can-hear Histories and Theories of Sound 3 July 2018 Florence Peel Centre, Fitzroy Presented by Liquid Architecture and Discipline For the past 20 years, Liquid Architecture has been Australia’s 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.