Walter Olmo (28 November 1938, Alba, Piedmont, Italy – 16 May 2019) was an Italian musician and composer.
[2] In his 1975 he published the essay La fine della preistoria musicale (The End of Musical Prehistory).
He then studied under Mauricio Kagel, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Christian Wolff and Iannis Xenakis in Darmstadt.
[2] With Piero Simondo, Elena Verrone, Michèle Bernstein, Guy Debord, Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio and Asger Jorn, Olmo founded the Situationist International on July 28, 1957.
Following a row with Debord, the Italian Section consisting of Olmo, Simondo and Verrone was expelled in January 1958.