Luigi Russolo, 1912, Sintesi plastica dei movimenti di una donna (Synthèse plastique des mouvements d'une femme), oil on canvas, 86 x 65 cm, Musée de Grenoble - ルイージ ルッソロ Memo.

Luigi Russolo Biography

• Born April 30, 1885 in Portogruaro, northeastern Italy.
• Initially, he aspired to be a musician and studied music on his own.
• Around 1909, he met Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and others in Milan and joined the Futurist movement.
• In 1910, he signed the "Futurist Manifesto" with Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Carlo Carrà, and Gino Severini, and began his career as a Futurist painter.
• In 1913, he published a manifesto called " The Art of Noise" in which he proposed the theory of " noise art."
• Developed "Intonarmori," an instrument that uses noise as a musical material, and held a concert
• After World War I, he focused on his musical career, continuing to refine and compose intonarumori.
• From the 1930s onwards, he became more interested in philosophy and the occult, and distanced himself from artistic activities.
• Died on February 4, 1947 in Cerro di Laveno-Mombello, northern Italy (aged 61)

Representative works

• "Perfum" (1910)
• Railway Station (Stazione ferroviaria) (c. 1910-11)
• Syntheses of Dynamism (1912)
• Dynamism of an Automobile (1913)
• Force on the Rails (1911)

Although Russolo started out as a painter, he made a greater contribution in the field of music. He criticized the fact that conventional music only uses a limited number of tones, and argued that music appropriate for the age of mechanical civilization should actively incorporate all kinds of "noise" emitted by cities and machines. This theory is known as "noise art," and the keyword "Luigi Russolo noise art" is widely recognized as his most important achievement. In order to compose noise as music, Russolo also invented a noise-generating device called the "intonarumori." This is an instrument that can generate various types of noise and control the pitch and rhythm, and the keyword "intonarumori" has attracted attention as a pioneering attempt in experimental music and sound art.

His paintings, based on the principles of Futurism, often express movement, speed, and dynamism, but they are not as widely known as his musical achievements. However, recent reevaluations have brought renewed attention to Russolo as a painter. His paintings, noise art, and intonarumori are important legacies in 20th-century art, and have had a major impact on the development of contemporary music and sound art. Russolo's works and theories are studied not only in Italy but around the world, and you can find information about his achievements by searching for "Luigi Russolo Futurism" and "Luigi Russolo works."