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THE BATTLE FOR MODeRN 1923


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italian futurism says dubstep to me

If you want to change the world, you have to be a bit … offensive.

That was the Fu­tur­ists.

Well, that was F.T. Marinet­ti. The rest came along for the ride.

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Part of his in­spi­ra­tion was a car ac­ci­dent. And how cool that could be. And how dri­ving fast is awesome.

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Ital­ian Fu­tur­ism was not about the fu­ture, it was about the future’s im­pact on the present. In this case, 1909, new tech­nolo­gies were chang­ing the world. And the idea of the Ro­man Em­pire still be­ing what Italy was all about – Marinet­ti felt this was passé.

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Street­lights, fac­to­ries, NOISE.

The world sound­ed dif­fer­ent be­fore the 20th Cen­tu­ry. Artist/composer Lui­gi Rus­so­lo cre­at­ed mu­sic from noise. And a bit lat­er, the elec­tric gui­tar took this con­cept main­stream. Moog, synths would go farther.

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Marinetti’s sound po­et­ry seemed like non­sense. It was just a beginning.

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Fu­tur­ism ad­vo­cat­ed war too. So a bunch of the fu­tur­ists were killed in World War One. And the move­ment end­ed up with ties to Fas­cism. And they were pret­ty sex­ist, tho in read­ings, I’m pret­ty sure Marinet­ti was pussy whipped mor than anything.

Which is why they’ve been ig­nored. Right­ful­ly. Well, not too ig­nored. They did some amaz­ing things. And hell, the fash­ion in­dus­try LOVES to steal from them. A lot.

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Gaga wouldn’t to­tal­ly be Gaga with­out Fu­tur­ism off in the distance.

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Ital­ian Fu­tur­ism says dub­step to me. 

Here’s an ex­per­i­men­tal mix from a few years back:

 
 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM! THX to flom­mists Cab­ri­na Robin­son for her ap­pear­ance on the MARINET­TI track, and Chelsea Davis for let­ting me get away with de­stroy­ing FIRE in this. Sort of. Pic­tured up top: Ivo Pan­nag­gi, Speed­ing Train (Treno in cor­sa, cropped), 1922, source. Sources in­clude this and this. MOR reads can be found on the Flomm Bib­li­og­ra­phy page.

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