CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Part of their vision came true. Music did indeed come to be made by machines.

What they didn't get right: the kind of machines that would make it.

In fact, the Italian Futurists of the early 20th century had something quite different in mind. What they imagined weren't exactly the iPods or synthesizers of today but rather something more like the Intonarumori devices headed this week to the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Part curiosity, part mystery, part sculpture, these 16 box-like "noise intoners" conceived by Luigi Rossolo in 1913 embody the mechanized sound world predicted by our forebears.

PREVIEW

Intonarumori

What: An orchestra of Italian Futurist noise intoners.

When: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 16.

Where: Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland.

Tickets: $33-$45. Go toclevelandart.org or call 216-421-7350.

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Cleveland Museum of Art offers glimpse of mechanized sound world with Futurist noise intoners