From Drusca Sent Mon, Aug 23rd 1999, 21:40
Kevin M Ryan wrote: > I've seriously read Marinetti and > Luigi Russolo but never heard Futurist music. I'm just > getting started in avant garde music and am always > receptive to recommendations for recordings. Edgar Varese is really the most talented composer attached to that school. A 2CD set of his complete works came out on London/Decca recently. You've gotta hear this piece "Deserts" which includes a tape part. It's sooo noisy. > I guess that's because John Cage to me is more of a > musical philosopher than a musician. Italian composer Berio made a revealing comment about Cage when he said that even though Cage doesn't like to put intent into his pieces they still sound like Cage. > Marinetti: "Glorify war, the only cleanser of the world." You've gotta be careful with the Futurists. They tended to be fascists, chauvinists, xenophobes, etc.. Andrei