June 2010

Scelsi, the postman of Deva

^{ra O, you know how these things go. One can not sit at home, and exits. To take a walk to a coffee bar to meet people, and instead stumbles across: faces, speeches, windows, clouds, the exhaust gas. So the other day I go out, and step in front of a library that has featured a book with a cover all white, with a circle above a line where it says: Giacinto Scelsi Dream Quodlibet 101 Ed.}

^{I understand, I did. I knew it, I said. I must not pass by libraries. That to me are like ovens witches in fairy tales: the ones with the tempting cakes but poisoned. That translated into everyday language, means: a cover price of thirty euro, while I had only one coin in your pocket for two coffees.}

^{A book of Giacinto Scelsi. One could also say Who is it? So the answer You know you could Shutter Island, Scorsese's latest film? And then the other would not go to the movies for five years. And then you would you say Bravo, keep it up then you see that as you reduce. On the soundtrack of Shutter Island, there are two songs I chose: to know how these things, just the magical world of the Internet, I should say that. Except that I did not think now.}

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^{Now He says, but you do that you care by Giacinto Scelsi, who were just out for a coffee and that's it? The fact is that I had to prepare a paper for the next issue of the newspaper and for some days thinking about what to write. Then I told myself that maybe I chose could go, except that, to be honest, I was not so sure. It's fine for an article on classical music always makes a great impression on her, but I chose was an aristocrat with a strong interest in Eastern mysticism el'esoterismo. One answer that question: " I was born in 2637 BC - you do the math and you know how old I am - in Mesopotamia" . And, so as not to miss anything, but our composer who called himself "postman". As he said, bearer of messages from the world of the Devas. Which is the Sanskrit word as an adjective that indicates what is divine or heavenly, and as a masculine noun means the deity or god. Then I thought that he gradually became more not photographed, like Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, Salinger, Mina or Esquerita: do you remember? Here, those. Silence. A Zen symbol with the circle and the line: it sells well represented '. He preferred scattarsele photographs alone.}

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^{Precisely For this reason, I said, it would be better to let go and I chose instead to prepare something, I know, prison songs interpreted with ethno-beat? Only if you do not go, do not you see, I replied. And then the article could also provide interesting ideas: the composer Scelsi, the controversies of the twentieth century music, his interest for the twelve-tone compositional techniques and those of Scriabin, his work on micro-tonal music. His poetry explores the microstructure of the musical sound, encroaching into territories hitherto unfathomable, then using unconventional techniques. Here's what we wanted: classical music, but ethno-beat prison, I said.}

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^{A history of great effect might have been one of the psychiatric clinic in Switzerland, and his piano. From which, say what everyone knows, was born with a composition of Scelsi, Four pieces for one note:} ^{"The composer came out of the crisis period with a work of deep introspective analysis, testing for a long time to reply a piano - which had been found inside the clinic - the sound of one note. Whence the Four Pieces for chamber orchestra composed in 1959 and premiered in Paris in 1960. Opera-manifesto that launched the third phase of creative Scelsi: and start the journey into the sound that characterizes so much of his later production. "} ^{Bravi, would be to say what everyone knows, this beautiful thing opera-manifesto. Original own. Never heard it before.}

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^{Look, I do have to write the article. Tell me, I do. Never mind what everyone knows. Watch that I chose, instead, the story tells it differently. And what do you know you're not a messenger of the Devas, I do. And if it was true? he does. All right, then sorry, I do. So I like you, he does. Listen to what Scelsi wrote: " is how you should hear a sound. I had this experience alone, without knowing the story, when I was in a clinic patient. Clinics there are always hidden little piano that hardly anyone plays. One day I started to play: do, do, re, re, re ... While I was playing someone said, 'That's crazier than us!'. Arguing in a statement it becomes very long, so great it feels more and more harmony and it will s'ingrandisce inside, the sound surrounds you. (...) The sound fills the place where you are, you rings, you can swim in it. (...) Today music has become an intellectual pleasure - to combine a sound with another and so on. - Useless. Everything is there, the space fills the entire universe, all the possible sounds are contained in it. The design of today's music is futile - the relationships between sounds, contrapuntal work: so music becomes a game. " Just tell me, expects me to write. In fact, you know I do? We also insert a comment. You copied from somewhere else, do I have to write the article. Of course, I do, God forbid. And I thought, he does. We feel, he says. "Scelsi was able to get the sounds unimaginable and to discover their sound quality and color explore the dimensions most secret and profound: the sounds become sound-bubble". Well, does the Article. Only I do not think that will be of interest to the journal, something like that. You know or not that will require "cultural battles," more than bubble-sounds. I present, I do. Battle and culture, he does. I present: K ulturellen Kampf, I do. Bravo, he does.}

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^{Look - says the librarian who came out to get some fresh air - read here, instead of wasting time with sound-bubble, that not even know what they are. Thank you, I do get the book that brought me. A finding of booksellers so, I say. I pray he does, no problem, so I'm just a fictional character. I imagined, I do. However riportamelo laws and then, he says. And forget the sound-bubble that then people talk bad about you. Thank you: you know, I do. "From writing original music and sound steeped in Eastern culture content, the work of composer Giacinto Scelsi placed himself in the music scene of the twentieth century as a synthesis between East and West. Its musical concept he anticipated several years in some currents of contemporary music such as music and minimal spectral Muscia. Perfect, I do: spectral music is always its effect, especially on the cultural battles pafgine. L or so, does the bookseller, so you I did read. Now I go, he does. Go Go, I do that I'll clarify here.}

^{That fact should be made clear at once: he, Scelsi, "Il Postino", as mentioned, was one of those who disliked being photographed: "The My music is neither this nor that, not twelve-tone, it is not puntilista, is not minimalist ... What then? We do not know. " Signed O, How the book on display. That, incidentally, there was one next to Paolo Nori soon as I read I got the envy. And you can see, is the article that I write, just you see, like no, you see. So what? I do. So anything he does. Just hope it will pass soon, the Chameleon Syndrome, makes the Article. Quiet, I do, as soon as I get home I take Gadda.}

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^{Look, I is the article that I have yet to write. Tell me, I do. Bring myself to finish this' article on Scelsi? he does. I'm trying, I do. Then start with the character, he says, that always works. Okay, I do. As long as we hurry, makes the Article.}

^{A character, Giacinto Scelsi, Count Francesco Maria Ayala-Valva (La Spezia 1905 - Rome 1988). Growing up in an old castle and educated by a tutor who taught him chess, Latin, and fencing to a good start that every biography of respect. Only those who would like items involved, they could just say: Imagine! Fantasy aristo-rock of the worst kind, with dangerous mystical-intellectual tendencies. I chose, I would recommend: Urlavan was when the hate hunger and pain from a thousand faces ischeletrite? And always those who would like to add that readers understand myself do not understand why you decide, finally, some nice to attend school in writing.}

^{To hear writing school, I immediately gave a scratch and was about to go even deeper into rummaging when, for no reason, I thought Baricco! Alessandro Baricco! What if you were to say But how do you go for certain things while you scratch your head? So what? You respond right away I do not know anything, but want to make? And I would add You would be able to write an article called "There I chose?"? No? Baricco was capable of. Baricco, you know? That of the Holden school for writers, how about taking a scratch.}

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^{Belli, the Four Pieces for one note. What then if one, just to make a stupid question, saying: Sorry, but because a single note? Could respond immediately chose the same: "The notes, the notes, which are not coverings, clothes. But what's inside is usually more interesting, no? The sound is round, is round. Instead you listen to him always as the duration and height. Not good. Everything has a spherical center: it can be demonstrated scientifically. We must get to the heart of sound: only then a musician, otherwise you are just craftsmen. A craftsman of the music is worthy of respect, but is neither a musician nor a real true artist. " Then that, repenting for the stupid question, with a burst of pride would ask: And then the circle? La sua firma, risponderei guardandolo fisso negli occhi. E giù un silenzio da duello western. Il cerchio, la forma perfetta, direi. Perfezione, intangibilità. Né inizio né fine, né direzione né orientamento, aggiungerei stringendo i pugni. E la linea? direbbe quello. La linea orizzontale ci spinge verso la materia, il corpo, direi sputando per terra. Scelsi si firmava così, concluderei con un tono di sfida. Il tipo allora si allontanerebbe velocemente senza neanche salutare, impaurito dagli incontri che si possono fare di mattina. C’è di tutto in giro, questa è la verità. Per questo uno dovrebbe saper restare a casa, che se vuoi il caffè ti fai una six beautiful cups and you're all morning. Other than bars and walk.}

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^{What if then one, as it was his stubborn to leave, he happened to meet a witty that, to do the funny, you could also say And if that was his signature, then, let alone his music! Now that it can not be more than funny, I thought. And it can not be even more than that if the label is not very clear that a "strict observance of, say so that it could be interesting, but perhaps first we need a necessary clarification. Imagine someone called Scelsi. Giacinto, too. Who was that? What did he do? Where were you when the dark until the present century, the dawn already sticking threateningly? to waste time with chess, Latin, and fencing? She had written him an anthem of rebellion? No? And then a nice article on the latest best interpreters of song that prison, guarding jealously the popular root, which are placed in the ethno-pop, they said those labels.}

just do me the ethno-pop makes you a rash, mi sono detto allontanandomi dalla vetrina. Per non parlare delle etichette. E quindi Scelsi va bene: altroché, ho pensato mentre andavo verso il caffè. Tu prova ad ascoltare qualcosa di suo. Poi mi dici. Altro che etno-pop-carcerario! Scelsi. Hai presente la Musica? Quella, gli avrei detto.

RAILWAY MEMORIES

vocational training course
EXCHANGE - OPERATION AND BRAKE

Clipboard environment

INSTRUCTOR (called Don ....) : Guaglioh! .. Here, a matin, but a v-ni cchiù subbt! No u prevt annanzh and the pr-v-Ticci addreth ! Allorh (Student 1), d-nu CITME Poch, who knows sti Zamp d hare?

(Student 1): D on ... Piccinnu m'a lu lu measured cappucciu n'cull nunn'aggiu and understand the question.

(All) Ehh! Ehh! Ehh!

(INSTRUCTOR): Mo, mo, mo - nu scusatm few - facitl speaks.

(Student 1): D on ... last night at lu passaggiu non'era level of and lu lu fischu m'a nsurdutu train.

(INSTRUCTOR): Ved (Student 1), since I study a moment n'ai Penz met with nothing and that their crabs n'ann capit ... or not? ... or is someone who ....?

(All) Noooooooooo!

(Student 2): Ah - Ah - Ah! ! ! !

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(Student 2): Sint, you do u capuzzill vu, here we are all friends and if you're good, everyone is his own business .... agree?

(INSTRUCTOR): Moment ... moment ...

(an appointee): TOK TOK-Don ...! Don .... on the phone!

(INSTRUCTOR): Semp vol quist'om to me! Scusath .... finf minut!

(All) general revelry

(INSTRUCTOR): (Student 3), closes the door, so that you ul'utm. ...

(Student 3): D on ..., I'll get a sandwich

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(Student 2): Quill, Don ...., The conduct is not it?, Brake Westingus ....

(INSTRUCTOR): Now (Student 4), which in December signrì back there?

(Student 4): You could avoid!

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(Student 5): !!!!...

(All) S offers chiang!

(INSTRUCTOR): What more?

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I remember, na Voth, we were in '43, you (Student 6) were not yet scheduled, the time zaraff, eh! Then were the days .... guaglioh ... dur! No Mo, Vonn does not do anything .... no offense to nisciunh, p'amor d dijh but mih car ..... Ditmar nu few ... sentiam (Student 7), go! dimm ched'è students bag?

(Student 7): D don ... no, u bag, just tea seams, no outside, no, intern, no ....

(INSTRUCTOR): Or not?

(Student 7): Yes, no

(INSTRUCTOR): Or not?

(Student 7): No,

(INSTRUCTOR): N'somm, guagliù, mttitv Daccord facitm and ignorant, feel anz (Student 8): Cam ago, we buy the locomotor study?

(Student 8): For now, Don ... I take the check-only ... below, with the savings .....

(INSTRUCTOR): sentiam E (Student 9) you disagree co '(Student 8)?

(Trainee 9): practice, practice .. Don ....

grazing Confetra