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Boccioni Umberto

CS member Dani Thomas, composer of the electro-acoustic piece ‘Coalface’, describes his response to both the energy and rashness of the early 20th century futurists 'Coalface' can be streamed and downloaded here In 1909 in Italy, Filippo Marinetti wrote his impassioned manifesto for futurism. The unordered, awkward syntax of the writing is as representative of the outwardly ...