Italian Futurists Of 1913 Essay

The Italian Futurists of 1913 first experimented with noise, presented in an auditoria format of a conceptual listening projected upon a specific audience. The Futurists first experiments used the noise of traffic in the core of the presented content. Later in 1916, during the midst of Word War 1 (chronologically and physically), the movement of experimental Dadaism in Switzerland started to gain momentum, as it drew much inspiration for its Avant-Garde style from the former Italian Futurists. Specifically, Cabaret Voltaire was the physical gathering point for where many of the experimental noise music, noise creation, sound and simultaneous poetry took place. In the article by Douglas Kahn, in the Sound studies Reader, Noises of The Avant-Garde, Kahn explains how Dadaism fell to come under the common phrase Bruitism which contains the broad features of a diversity of “noise making devices” with the center of Dada symbolism at Café Voltaire being “Richard Huelsenbeck banging on the big drum” (Kahn pg. 427). Interestingly, the notion of

3). The critique and assault cast upon the bourgeoisies society, (with it’ rigorous notions of art, beauty and thought) became the limelight of focus for Dadaism at Café Voltaire, but it was actually the literally publications and journals that allowed the resistance to the bourgeois’ standardized notions of beauty, art, alongside the majorities conformity to public opinion and social normality’s and the opposition to war and terror - to travel all around Europe, and eventually the entire globe (predominantly more developed countries, though). War was continuously harnessed as a powerful energetic, anomalous force of inspiration and modeling for Bruitist (or Bruitism) noise performances at Café