Pasajes sonoros [y ruidistas] de la ciudad futurista

Abstract

With parole in libertà, Italian futurism incorporated into poetry the sounds of machines and the crowds of the contemporary city, sonorous passages that would also shift into the musical experience. Pratella composed music to reflect the dynamism of the new cities. In The Art of Noises, according to Luigi Russolo, sound is a modifiable entity that could be structured as if it were classical music. Fortunato Depero investigated new forms of expression to represent natural and urban sounds in onomolingua. Francesco Casavola and Silvio Mix abandoned the experimentalism of Russolo and Pratella in the 1920s, they will, however, continue to explore urban sound resources in their work. The abstraction of radio syntheses, linked to the masses and to war, would bring Futurism's urban landscapes to a close.