An Enactive Approach to the Preservation of Musical Instruments Reconstructing Russolo's Intonarumori

In the early twentieth century, the Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo made a set of instruments called Intonarumori. In each, sound was generated inside a box with a horn, by means such as a wheel scraping on a string, controlled by a crank and one or more levers. The original instruments were all dest...

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Published in:Journal of new music research 2009-09, Vol.38 (3), p.231-239
Main Authors: Serafin, Stefania, de Götzen, Amalia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Digital Technology
Experimental Musical Instrument
Futurist Composers
Preservation
Reproduction Instrument
Russolo, Luigi
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Summary:In the early twentieth century, the Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo made a set of instruments called Intonarumori. In each, sound was generated inside a box with a horn, by means such as a wheel scraping on a string, controlled by a crank and one or more levers. The original instruments were all destroyed during the Second World War. This paper describes reconstructions using digital controllers attached to a lever and crank and sound generated by a physical modelling paradigm to mimic the original construction of wheel, string, box and horn. This allows for a kind of 'preservation' of the original instruments whereby their original enactive properties are recreated.
ISSN:0929-8215
1744-5027
DOI:10.1080/09298210903161013