EFNI – Ensemble of Futurist Noise Intoners
EFNI - Ensemble of Futurist Noise Intoners, was founded in 2024 and had its premiere performance in July 2024 in the music series Holy Fluxus in Berlin.
The musicians performing in the EFNI ensemble play the intonarumori, a noise instrument associated with the Italian Futurist movement. Although more than 110 years have passed since its inception, they are still known to only a handful of music connoisseurs and few compositions exist for them. The musician Luciano Chessa, among others, has contributed to their reconstruction, and together with an international ensemble he will present new compositions by Czech and foreign composers such as Peter Ablinger, Elliott Sharp, Milan Knížák, Milan Guštar and others during the evening.
The inventor of these noise instruments was Luigi Russolo, Italian artist, musician and author of the futuristic manifesto The Art of Noise. The newly created instruments were to replace the classical instruments and establish a new orchestra composed of noise intoners, along with breakthroughs in technology and a new social situation. It was non-musical sounds and noises that were to become the music of the new age. The utopian ideas of the Italian Futurists fell into oblivion for a long time, but their manifestos and many of their ideas were discovered by the artistic avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s. Since then, several attempts have been made to reconstruct the intonarumori as musical instruments, the most prominent figure being the theorist, musician, composer and conductor Luciano Chessa.
The EFNI ensemble includes Luciano Chessa (intonarumori, violin, conductor), Werner Durand (intonarumori, electronics), Anna Clementi (intonarumori), Jan Kolář (intonarumori) and Miroslav Beinhauer (intonarumori).
About EFNI – Ensemble of Futurist Noise Intoners
EFNI - Ensemble of Futurist Noise Intoners, was founded in 2024 and had its premiere performance in July 2024 in the music series Holy Fluxus in Berlin.
The musicians performing in the EFNI ensemble play the intonarumori, a noise instrument associated with the Italian Futurist movement. Although more than 110 years have passed since its inception, they are still known to only a handful of music connoisseurs and few compositions exist for them. The musician Luciano Chessa, among others, has contributed to their reconstruction, and together with an international ensemble he will present new compositions by Czech and foreign composers such as Peter Ablinger, Elliott Sharp, Milan Knížák, Milan Guštar and others during the evening.
The inventor of these noise instruments was Luigi Russolo, Italian artist, musician and author of the futuristic manifesto The Art of Noise. The newly created instruments were to replace the classical instruments and establish a new orchestra composed of noise intoners, along with breakthroughs in technology and a new social situation. It was non-musical sounds and noises that were to become the music of the new age. The utopian ideas of the Italian Futurists fell into oblivion for a long time, but their manifestos and many of their ideas were discovered by the artistic avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s. Since then, several attempts have been made to reconstruct the intonarumori as musical instruments, the most prominent figure being the theorist, musician, composer and conductor Luciano Chessa.
The EFNI ensemble includes Luciano Chessa (intonarumori, violin, conductor), Werner Durand (intonarumori, electronics), Anna Clementi (intonarumori), Jan Kolář (intonarumori) and Miroslav Beinhauer (intonarumori).
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