... speeches (usually by Marinetti), presentations of paintings, literary and poetic readings and short dramatic plays called sintesi or syntheses. Marinetti's early works of literature, such as his experimental novel Marfarka le futuriste (Marfarka the futurist) of 1911, often got him into trouble - indeed he was arrested and charged with publishing pornography when Marfarka was released on an unsuspecting ... extra pictorial associations. Manifestoes were published also for music, first in July 1912 by Ballila Pratella, and Russolo devoted much of his time to experiments with music created...

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