Avant-garde Ceramics: Luigi Russolo

"Music was Luigi Russolo’s birthright. His father was a cathedral organist, and his brothers graduated from the Milan conservatory. In school, Russolo pursued painting, but as a mature artist he returned to music and transformed it into a dissonant beast, inciting riots from crowds, inventing new instruments and becoming the father of noise music ... "

" ... At the end of 1909 Russolo befriended Umberto Boccioni. Together they explored the possibilities of a more modern visual and sonic language capable of expressing the new sensibility of the contemporary industrialized world ... "

"Luigi Carlo Filippo Russolo (Portogruaro, 1885 - Laveno-Mombello, 1947), painter, composer and inventor of musical instruments, was one of the leading exponents of Futurism: his name appears among the signatories of the Manifesto of Futurist Painting and the Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting. His pictorial elaborations are not in large numbers, as for a long period he devoted himself exclusively to music, a field in which he tried his hand at an early age ... "