Experimental Music of Italy

The experimental music is a broad, loosely defined field encompassing music produced by abandoning traditional classical concepts of melody and harmony and by using the new innovation of electronics to make hitherto impossible sounds. In Italy, one of the first to devote his attention to experimental music was Ferruccio Busoni, whose 1907 publication, known as sketch for a new aesthetic of music, discussed the use of electrical and other new sounds in future music.

Similarly, Luigi Russolo the Italian Futurists painter and composer wrote of the possibilities of the new music in his 1913 manifestoes the art of noises and musica futurista. He also created and built instruments like the intonarumori, mostly drumming, which were used in a precursor to the pattern called musique concrete. One of the most powerful events in the early 20^th century Society music was the return of Alfredo Casella from France in 1915; Casella initiated the societa Italiana di musica moderna, which promoted many composers in disparate patterns, ranging from experimental to traditional. After a dispute over the value of experimental music in the year 1923, Casella formed the Corporazione delle Nuove Musiche to help the recent experimental music.