Music: the foundation of that presence in which we find ourselves shows
itself as pure negative. Everything is founded on a demonstration of its
own negativity: as awareness of its being negative, and does not look
for an escape into a future presence, that is an objective future. But,
accepting its negativity, makes of this self-negation the real act, the
true reality -- the true foundation, the real and actual continuity:
this is music's sense. Utopia Andata e Ritorno is the title of
the new composition by Walter Marchetti, recorded in Milano in 2005. It
has two parts, each one CD long. The first part, 'L'Andata,' puts
together two former recordings of Marchetti. The recording of a real
storm and a recital for solo piano. This is not the first time that
Marchetti mixes a piano solo recital with the recording of a natural
live event, thus creating a 'piano concert'. The second CD, 'Il
Ritorno', reverses the direction of the first record and literally
destroys itself. In the first part of this work, Marchetti puts music
successfully in the place it has to have today: on the road to renewal
in contact with reality, a reality that is a synonym for vacuity, that
is the interdependence of phenomena, music, reality, technology. There
is nothing mimetic or anecdotal in this work. The storm is a real storm
and the solo piano recital is a modern work of pure music, without the
excesses that the society expects of a piano recital from composer and
virtuoso player. Pure music, in the best sense of the word. 'L'Andata'
is one of the great works of music of our time, or, as José Luis
Castillejo remarked, 'it may be the best modern piano concert since Brahms.'
In the second part, 'Il Ritorno,' sound waves are deformed when one
tries a reverse hearing and the turn around trip becomes an aural
nightmare. Of course, avant-gardism has made us accustomed to noises and
silences and to the arbitrary idea that anything is music. 'Il Ritorno'
announces the end of musical avant-gardism and its technocratic
aspirations. It points to the end of music avant-gardism because it
exposes the technological manipulation not only of technology beyond its
powers, but also the manipulation of both music and sound. 'Il Ritorno'
is such a problematic work also because its subject is failure and
impossibility. Three-folded digipack 2CD edition. It includes a 32-page
booklet with essays by Water Marchetti, Gabriele Bonomo and José Luis
Castillejo. First edition limited to 500 copies.
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