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The
first impression of this release is its physical manifestation; somber,
sober, ascetic, downscaled, withheld: the cover almost invisible, the
text on the white paper not black, but gray. There is an airy,
spiritual, transparent feeling of a thin fall afternoon in an open
landscape in the presentation of the CD. It is as if the producers
achieved this issue by cautiously breathing on a magic mirror in an
enchanted garden, not even touching, not at all disturbing, but simply
letting thought and dream condense on the glass of time… |
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Lest
you get the impression that the Ants label is an Italian version of
trente oiseaux or 12k, the music of Luigi Di Giampietro is a fine
example of gritty and grizzly avant-garde electronic music. All five of
his pieces feature electronics, with flute (Ubaldo Di Gregorio) added on
"Corpora Caeca" and trombone (Giancarlo Schiaffini) on "Repetita
iuvant", which is (ironically?) the richest and most aurally
diverse work on offer, probably because much of it is collaged together
from no less than five pieces by Luigi Nono. "La clessidra di
cristallo" plays with periodicity in a way that would have probably
horrified Nono, but serves as a timely reminder that the innovations of
Mego, Mille Plateaux and a million other post-techno labels are as much
part of the heritage of electronic music as "La fabbrica illuminata"
- Di Giampietro's music, like Ned Bouhalassa's from across the pond in
Canada, is an exciting example of something that happens all too rarely
in "contemporary classical" music, namely a real understanding
of the technology and ethos of popular music brought to bear on the
venerable tradition of electronic composition. |
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