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Friday, February 17, 2006

Giacomo Balla (1914)


Italian painter Giacomo Balla was one of the founders of Futurism, signing the Futurist Manifesto which was published in 1910. In this document Balla, along with artists including Umberto Boccioni and Carlo Carrà, outlined their primary objective to depict movement, which they saw as symbolic of their commitment to the dynamic forward thrust of the twentieth century. Futurism celebrated the machine - the racing car was heralded as the triumph of the age - and early futurist paintings were concerned with capturing figures and objects in motion.
Balla goes even further than Russolo, the theoretician of 'Intonarumori': towards pure sound and the timbre-word" , the word-colour and, we add, towards the disarticulated phoneme. Here the mp3s of his voice.
Discussione sul futurismo di due critici sudanesi (1914) mp3
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Macchina Tipografica (1914) mp3
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