1913/The Art of Noises/2013 

1913/The Art of Noises/2013

13 December 2013, University College Cork, School of Music, Sundays Well road

ALOYS FLEISCHMANN ROOM

10 – 11.15

·         James Whitehead, Noise is Stupid – Flat Ontologies, Reality and Noise

·         Rodrigo Carvalho, The Metaphor of Noise in early 20^th Century Avant-Garde Music: Busoni, Russolo and Schaeffer

·         Aonghus McEvoy, Russolo – Mapping Auditory Experience in Belfast City; noise and meaning in urban space

[short break]

11.30 -12.45

·         Rhys Davies, Why Sound Art Became the Unloved Bastard Child of Music

·         Rob Gawthorp, Not Seeing What is Heard | Not Hearing What is Seen

·         Victor Cruz, Crisis Music: Futurism, Jazz and the Historiography of Aesthetic Avant-Gardes

12.45 – 1.15 Paul Hegarty, Elizabeth Price, The Woolworths Choir of 1979

Ó RIADA HALL

2.45 – 3.15  analogue electronics

Barry Synnott, Modular Synthesiser Live Improvisation

Declan Synnott, Amplified Static

3.15 – 4.15

·         Benjamin J. Heal, Weaponizing Noise: William S. Burroughs’ Sound & Music Experiments

·         Valentina Ravaglia, ‘The Vibrations Between Two Objects in Relation to each Other Offer the Pleasure of Magical Thinking’: Aural and Visual Noise in the Work of Mike Kelley

[short break]

4.30 – 5.30

·         David Spittle, The Lyricism of Noise in John Ashberry’s Flow Chart

·         Danny McCarthy, Luigi Russolo Met John Cage on the Corner of Castle Street

5.45 – 6.45

Scott Wilson (with Edia Connole and Suzanne Walsh), The Eroticism of Silence

7.00

Strange Attractor and Guests present intonarumori concert

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NEXT DAY

Strange Attractor The Quiet Club +++++ Anthony Kelly +++++Guests Of A Very Special Nature +++++++++++++

Intonarumori 1913 – 2013

Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Saturday 14^th December 2013

“Let’s walk together through a great modern capital, with the ear more attentive than the eye, and we will vary the pleasures of our sensibilities by distinguishing among the gurglings of water, air and gas inside metallic pipes, the rumblings and rattlings of engines breathing with obvious animal spirits, the rising and falling of pistons, the stridency of mechanical saws, the loud jumping of trolleys on their rails, the snapping of whips, the whipping of flags. We will have fun imagining our orchestration of department stores’ sliding doors, the hubbub of the crowds, the different roars of railroad stations, iron foundries, textile mills, printing houses, power plants and subways.”

from The Art of Noise (Futurist Manifesto, 1913)

by Luigi Russolo (translated by Robert Filliou)

This Dec 14^th (almost one hundred years since the first outing for Russolo's Futuristic Orchestra) Strange Attractor plus The Quiet Club and guests will re-engage with some of the ideas and sounds from The Art of Noises...

During 1913, after dedicating L'arte dei rumori, a manifesto formulated as a letter, to Ballila Pratella, the (musician in the Futurists) the Italian composer and painter Luigi Russolo designed and built a family of new musical instruments which he called Intonarumori, and in the process became the Futurists' actual musician. 

The new sonorities of Russolos' re-imagining of the traditional orchestra included six families of instruments generating a taxonomy of noisy sounds - Roarer, Burster; Whistler, Hisser; Gurgler; Croaker, Crackler; Rubber; Hummer and Howler.

Utilising a new series of self-built acoustic noise intoners (based on Russolo's original designs) the members and guests of Strange Attractor will simulate everyday noise sonorities in combination with the spoken word evoking the spirit of the Futurists' strange new sound and music.

Admission is free and all are welcome to come along.

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Coming soon on the Farpoint Recordings label:

Strange Attractor  - Experiments In A Quinary Landscape epublication
Strange Attractor – a new full length audio CD