New and old compositions for Luigi Russolo's legendary Intonarumori. After publishing the Art of Noises in 1913, futurist painter Luigi Russolo designed and built a revolutionary family of new noise instruments - large black boxes with acoustic horns, crank-handles and levers that could produce 'roars, thunderings, explosions, hissing, whistling, puffing, whispers, murmurs, mumbling, muttering, gurgling, screeching, creaking, rustling, buzzing, crackling and scraping'. These are heard here in the first and only recordings of original works for orchestra and intonarumori, composed in the 1920s, and four specially commissioned works by Chris Cutler, Andzrej Karpinski, Nick Sudnik and Alessandro Monti. Exquisitely packaged in a threefold digipak featuring four impressive paintings by Futurist Ivo Pannaggi. MUSICIANS: NICK SUDNICK - Founder of legendary Rigan experimentalists ZGA (1984). Inventor and builder of many varieties of Zgamonium, featured here. ANDRZEJ KARPINSKI - Polish drummer and visual artist, founder of experimental rock band Reportaz. CHRIS CUTLER - Drummer with Henry Cow, Art Bears, Cassiber, Pere Ubu... ALESSANDRO MONTI - Venetian musician and producer of ambient classic The Wind Collector. PIETRO VERARDO - Professor of early music at the Benedetto Marcello conservatory in Venice, historian, and scholar of futurist music.
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