As well as being one of the earliest composers and the genius of Futurist music, Luigi Russolo (1885-1947) was also an instrument builder, a signatory of the ‘Manifesto of Futurist Painters’, an engraver, a mystic and a scholar of Oriental philosophy.

Luigi Russolo (1885 - 1947), Italian futurist painter and musician and inventor of the "intonarumori" expounded his musical theories in 1913 in this manifesto entitled "L'arte dei rumori" (The Art of Noises) in which he presented his ideas about the use of noises in music.

The Intonarumori were a family musical instruments invented in 1913 by italian futurist painter and musical composer Luigi Russolo. They were acoustic noise generators that permitted to create and control in dynamic and pitch several different types of noises.