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Intonarumori are experimental musical instruments invented and built by the Italian Futurism Luigi Russolo between roughly 1910 and 1930. Oxford Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, Oxford University, p. 620 There were 27 varieties of intonarumori built in total, with different names.
As part of its celebration of the 100th anniversary of Italian Futurism, the Performa 09 biennial, in collaboration with the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, invited Luciano Chessa (author of the book Luigi Russolo, Futurist. Noise, Visual Arts, and the Occult) to direct a reconstruction project to produce accurate replicas of Russolo's legendary intonarumori instruments. This project offered the set of 16 original intonarumori (8 noise families of 1–3 instruments each, in various registers) that Russolo built in Milan in the summer of 1913. These intonarumori were physically built by luthier Keith Cary in Winters, California, under Chessa's direction and scientific supervision. The concert premiered at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on October 16, 2009, before traveling to New York City for its Performa 09 presentation at The Town Hall on November 12, 2009. Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners , turbulence.org In September 2010, Chessa presented the recreated intonarumori in its first Italian appearance, a concert event at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto in Rovereto, Italy, as part of the Festival Transart, which featured performances by Nicholas Isherwood. "Intonarumori – Das Orchester der Futuristischen Geräuscherzeuger" , berlinerfestspiele.de
With 2013 being the 100th anniversary of both The Art of Noises and John Cage's birth, the curators of Carnegie Mellon University's Wats:ON? Festival, Wats:ON? Festival 2013 Golan Levin and Spike Wolff, felt the time was ripe for a presentation of noise and decided to reconstruct the forgotten intonarumori instruments for the festival. Carnegie Mellon University - An Inspirational NOISE Carl Bajandas, a sculptor, an instrument builder, took the lead and built 10 intonarumori instruments. Meanwhile, experimental composer, music technologist John Ozbay, has been asked to compose for the intonarumori instruments. "CMU's Wats:ON? Festival explores the origins of an abrasive genre", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Intonarumori Concert Details", John Ozbay The performance took place in Carnegie Mellon University's Kresge Theatre on April 4, 2013. Followed by performances of electronic/experimental music artists, Jeremy Boyle, Michael Johnsen, Eric Singer and Lesley Flanigan.
Dutch sound artist Wessel Westerveld made a series of replicas. Westerveld's replicas are the most professional versions with welded steel horns instead of cardboard and nailed steel cones like the Italian and New York ones. The woodwork of these versions are also real hard wood instead of plywood. Westerveld has also made a few open variants with the sound system visible from the outside. "Intonarumori", website of Wessel Westerveld Westerveld performs regularly with his intonarumori in collaboration with Dutch sound artist Yuri Landman. The Dutch replicas were shown and played by Westerveld at the Tuned City festivals in several cities, and a few times at the GOGBOT festival in Enschede. In 2012, Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, wrote a score for the instruments at the Performa festival in New York City. In 2015, the Italian band King Tongue staged a tribute to Russolo at Circolo Filologico in Milan performing along with an orchestra of four intonarumori conducted by Lounge Lizards founding member Steve Piccolo. Czech composer Miroslav Pudlák's Intonarumori Concerto, for three intonarumori soloists and chamber orchestra, was premiered by the Berg Orchestra in Prague in 2018. The Prague-based Opening Performance Orchestra has released a recording using these replicas in Pudlák's Intonarumoris on Sub Rosa Records.[8] Miroslav Pudlák on his new CD and the transformations of the musical scene
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