The founder of Italian Futurism, F.T. Marinetti was heavily influenced by French Cubism and Etienne Jules Marey, a scientist and photographer who studied the mechanics of bodies in motion. He also created the first cat video in 1894 called “Falling Cat”

We also share the intonarumori performance by Robert Worby for BBC Radio 3.

Special thanks to Dan Russo for lending his voice.

References and further reading:

Futurism: An Anthology by Henry McBride, et al.

https://modernistarchitecture.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/ebooksclub-org__futurism__an_anthology__henry_mcbride_series_in_modernism_.pdf   

Guggenheim Exhibit: Art, Nationalism and War: Political Futurism in Italy

http://exhibitions.guggenheim.org/futurism/timeline/   

https://www.academia.edu/3062991/Art_Nationalism_and_War_Political_Futurism_in_Italy_1909-1944_

We Will Sing the Love of Danger: Italian Futurism and Imagined Representations of Gender and Technology by Anne Dalke and Laura Blakenship

http://gandt.blogs.brynmawr.edu/web-papers/web-papers-3/%E2%80%9Cwe-will-sing-the-love-of-danger%E2%80%9D-italian-futurism-and-imagined-representations-of-gender-and-technology/

Voice as Surface and Artifact in the Experimental Drone Music of Jelena Glazova by Peter Kirn

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2013/04/voice-as-surface-and-artifact-in-the-experimental-drone-music-of-jelena-glazova-listen/

http://everything2.com/title/Futurism+and+Fascism%253A+Gendered+Political+Strategies

Futurist Movement: Avant-Garde, Avant-Guerre and the Language of Rupture by Marjorie Perloff

The Futurist Synthetic Theatre by F.T. Marinetti, Emilio Settimelli, Bruno Corr

Futurist Performance by Michael Kirby and Victoria Nes Kirby

The Art of Noises by Luigi Russolo

Analyse und Werturteil by Carl Dahlhaus

Media Parasite in the Avant-Garde: On the Abuse of Technology and Communication by Arndt Niebisch

jelena-glazova.com and https://soundcloud.com/jelenaglazova