WALTER MARCHETTI

De Musicorum Infelicitate

(Alga Marghen) Used CD $25.00

While listening to these “Ten Pieces in the Form of Painful Variations” from 2001, each one with the precise duration of six minutes, you will realize that music, this extremely dense sonority close to the pulverization limit, is talking about itself. Sealed

WALTER MARCHETTI

Nei Mari del Sud, Musica in Secca

(Alga Marghen) Used CD $25.00

“The former version of Nei mari del Sud was originally conceived as acoustic theater that accompanied an installation staged on June 9, 1982, during the international contemporary festival Musicalia at Teatro Carcano, Milan. In this stage installation, Marchetti expanded for the first time on a larger scale the same figurative scheme that usually marks his major work in progress: a series of installations invariably entitled ‘Musiche da camera,’ where the ‘icon’ of a piano defines its role in a seemingly paradoxical context. In the scenery of ‘Nei mari del Sud,’ as shown in the photographic sequence reproduced on the CD fold-out, the black carcass of a grand piano appears on the surface of a large expanse of sea, artificially re-created with a shapeless heap of bluish tissue-paper. In the background, the slow, progressive unsticking of the blue paper-curtain, accidentally caused by the floodlight’s heat, configures the impeding threat of a gigantic wave on the point of completely submerging the scene. The acoustic décor projected for this installation invades through twelve loudspeakers set in a semicircle in the rear of the audience playing out-of-phase tapes. Included foldout with photo documentation, an essay by Gabriele Bonomo, a testimony by Robert Ashley and a poster.