At the beginning of the 3rd piece, an extraordinary thing happens: Marinetti, Boccioni, Armando Mazzi, and Piatti vanish from the stage, emerge from the empty orchestra pit, run across it, and hurl themselves among the seats, assaulting the many pastists....
....now drunk with the rage of tradition and imbecility, with blows, slaps, and cudgels . . . the battle in the orchestra lasts about half an hour, while the imperturbable Luigi Russolo continues to direct his orchestra of noise instruments.
Russolo in The Art of Noises lays out a map of his mechanical philharmonic, classed by families of sound. “Roars”, “thunderings”, “explosions”, “bangs” “booms”, “shouts”, “screams”, “shrieks”, “wails”, “hoots”, “howls”, “death rattles”, and “sobs”
Russolo retreated into esoteric pursuits:
Based with his wife in Cerro di Laveno, a quiet lakeside town in Italy, Russolo gave palm readings, expressed increasing interest in theosophy, & researched the possibility of, among other things, creating an “energy double” of his body.
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