For orchestra of Intonarumori.
2015
Noise in Layers
In 2010 Michele Callà took part in a workshop led by Luciano Chessa (San Francisco Conservatory of Music), who had reconstructed Luigi Russolo's orchestra of Intonarumori — the futurist noise instruments conceived in 1913. The project, organised by Transart, culminated in a concert at the MART in Rovereto, the recording of a double LP released by SubRosa (The Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners, SRV316), and a performance at the Berliner Festspiele MaerzMusik Festival in Berlin (2011).
That experience prompted the composition of Adagio. The piece draws on Russolo's original approach to the instruments while expanding their expressive possibilities: sound layers enter gradually, each new instrument accompanied by the transversal noise of its crank, building toward a climax modelled on the architecture of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings — broad, accumulative, inevitable.
Luciano Chessa, on receiving the score, noted that it captured the original concept of the orchestra.
Technical details
Type - Orchestra of Intonarumori
Year - 2015
Reference - L. Russolo, orchestra of Intonarumori (1913); S. Barber, Adagio for Strings (1936)