La ROMA
When my father was a Football Star, here playing with the Roma Football Team next to to some famous players.
Photo taken from the “Corriere Dello Sport” (2 September 2009 page 7)
is it going to rain?
One of the best website I’ve seen in the past few months.
Otto in the Shower
Produce your own electronic music in your browser
Produce your own electronic music with the Hobnox Audiotool. All in your browser.
Live recording of your tracks is finally possible. Choose your set-up, add, remove and arrange the devices you need and record your track to the ‚myFiles’ section of your Hobnox account. From there, publish and share. The first step towards timeline & sequencer, saving arrangments & remixing tracks is done!
How chinese multiply
Copenhagen and Malmo
I was already considering moving to one of the northern countries, after this trip I’m even more convince doing it.
My plan is to go to visit my friend Pierluca in Oslo and see how things are there, then go to Stockholm that seams to be the right city for me. In the main time I need to find a Swedish girl to teach me some basics.
For now I can just write:
Jag älskar Sverige =D
A night Shoot with Friends
I’m just back from a night spent taking photos and playing with lights.
I’ve been out with some dear friends here in Rome.
I gave them some torches and we started painting around.
SHOWROOM DUMMIES, the band (new website)
Here’s the new SHOWROOM DUMMIES website, …who are they? that’s my band, visit our website to find out more.
Otto on FaceBook
Luigi Russolo «Intonarumori»
Luigi Russolo «Intonarumori»
After a «long and unending period of research in his laboratory,» futuristic painter Luigi Russolo builds what he calls the «intonarumori» devices for producing a broad spectrum of modulated, rhythmic sounds similar to those made by machines, but without imitating or reproducing them.
These sounds are to be understood rather as «abstract materials» freed of their mechanical origins and now under human control, writes Russolo in his extensive Sound Art Manifesto.
By composing pieces for the «intonarumori,» Russolo also develops a new, graphic form of musical score. In 1914, the first concert for 18 «intonarumori,» a work divided into eight different categories of sounds, caused a huge scandal in Milan.
In 1914 as well, the twelve concerts staged in London drew more positive reactions. After World War I, concerts for «intonarumori» were staged together with classical symphony orchestras.
Biography
* 1885 in Portoguaro, Italy, died 1947 in Cerro di Laveno on Lake Maggiore (I).
Russolo first studied music, but turned to painting in 1909 and met F.T. Marinetti, U. Boccioni and C. Carra, with whom he signed the Futurist Manifesto in 1910. Russolo was involved in all subsequent manifestos, campaigns and exhibitions by the Italian Futurists.
In 1913 he dedicated «L’arte dei rumori,» a manifesto formulated as a letter, to Ballila Pratella, the musician in the group, and moved on to become the Futurists’ actual musician. He built a number of different «intonarumori» (noise intoners) with Ugo Piatti, and these caused an international stir at concerts from 1913. In 1915, Stravinsky, Prokoviev, Diaghilev and Massine met in Marinetti’s house to examine and report on the new instruments.
Russolo patented the «rumoramonio» (noise harmonium) in 1921, an enharmonic stringed instrument in 1925 and an enharmonic piano in 1931. Subsequently he occupied himself with occult sciences, writing the philosophical work «Al di la della materia» (Beyond Matter), and took up painting again in 1942.
(From: Akademie der Kunste (eds.), Fur Augen und Ohren, Berlin, 1980, p. 252)
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