Next week, Kronos Quartet returns to Syracuse for a residency to explore the art of noise through the long-lost Futurist instrument, the intonarumori. Zeke Leonard, an Assistant Professor of Design at SU, has been commissioned to construct a special quartet of intonarumori based on the original patent drawings from 1913. These instruments will be featured in an open demonstration, following two days of residency activities, which explore sound and technology through the eyes of the Futurists.

What is the intonarumori? Who were the Futurists? Find out at the Kronos Quartet Open Demonstration of the Intonarumori on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at 7PM, St. Paul’s Cathedral, downtown Syracuse. Free and open to the public.