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Dave Doremus algiers_piano@bellsouth.net
Fri, 4 Oct 2002 21:41:15 -0500


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=46or those interested in such things: 
http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/futurist/
and a quote I really like:

  Also, the identification of the composer with the instrument builder 
and performer had also been unheard of since the Middle Ages, but has 
become a prominent feature of experimental music since the nineteen 
fifties.

from http://cadre.sjsu.edu/switch/sound/articles/wendt/folder6/ng632.htm


"Rumorarmonio" (1922)


Russolo seated in front of two "Rumorarmonio"


Later versions of the Noise machines developed by Russolo in Paris 
included "Rumorarmonio" or "Noise Harmonium" or the "Russolo-Phone" 
which combined several noise machines with a rudimentary keyboard. 
This was presented to the Parisian public in 1929 by Var=E8se who 
planned to put the instruments in to mass production. Unfortunately 
the plans came to nothing and Russolo somewhat discouraged turned 
more and more to his painting and philosophy.


'The Enharmonic Piano'

The Enharmonic Piano was Russolo's last experimental instrument built 
during his time in Paris. The instrument consisted of a series of 
piano strings that were tuned to sympathetically vibrate when played.
-- 
----Dave


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Dave Doremus RPT
New Orleans
algiers_piano@bellsouth.net
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