Visions
Twenty years after his death, Fausto Romitelli still exerts a strong influence on the younger generation of composers. He embodies the successful hybridization of pop and savant, expressive chaos and fusional pulsation, the psychedelic state accepted and overcome, as evidenced by the violence of Amok Koma.
Hallucinations and inner visions? They are part of Matteo Franceschini's Visions, marked by the unbridled imagination of William Blake, pre-romantic engraver, draughtsman, painter, and poet. The dramaturgy is set in a world of archetypes, attractions and repulsions between text and music. Appearance or truth? Pasquale Corrado's Eterno Vuoto takes up this age-old question, raised by Plato, Marcus Aurelius and Saint Paul, and turns it into the argument of his creation, in which vocality invades the ensemble and electronics. Physical tension and resistance of the instrument: another great Romitellian gesture? Eva Reiter's Konter is born of this unresolved body-to-body confrontation.
Ljuba Bergamelli soprano
Laura Muller mezzo-soprano
Ensemble Multilatérale
Léo Warynski direction
Manuel Poletti IRCAM electronics
Francesco Abbrescia electronics (for Eterno Vuoto)
Luca Bagnoli IRCAM sound diffusion
Matteo Franceschini Visions, commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, the ensemble Multilatérale, Milano Musica, with the support of the Sacem, French premiere
Pasquale Corrado Eterno Vuoto, French premiere
Fausto Romitelli Amok Koma
Eva Reiter Konter, Premiere 2024 of the new version for contrabass flute in C
