Sun 1/11-Fri 1/16
Fri 1/16 @ 7:30PM
All week long in the atrium of the Cleveland Museum of Art, you can stop in to see the Intonarumori or “noise intoners,” built by composer/musicologist Luciano Chessa, based on an instrument created in 1913 by Futurist artist Luigi Rossolo. It’s described as “a set of wooden sound boxes each with cone-shaped metal speaker on its front, where sound was generated by turning a crank, while tone and pitch were controlled with a lever—the sound of the nascent machine age brought to life.”
The originals were lost sometime in the ’40s, but Chessa rebuilt them. He’s toured them round the world to festivals and arts institutions. If looking isn’t enough and you’d like to hear what they can do, the event at the Cleveland Museum of Art culminates with a performance in the Gartner Auditorium Fri 1/16.
Tickets are $30-$45.
clevelandart.org/intonarumori-orchestra-futurist-noise-intoners
Photo by Paula Court