Fausto Romitelli
An Index Of Metals
hortly before his death (ten years ago), Fausto Romitelli together with his friend Paolo Pachini and the poetess Kenka Lèkovich, resurrected the dream of a total scenic art (a furnace of sensations, they called it, an_ initiation rite_) in the manner of the Futurists: rhythms and gleams of light striking metals (for the video part), poems in iron and chrome singing of fusion with matter (Kenka Lekovich), acoustic/electric music highly amplified, filtered, spatialised, in as artificial a manner a…
Anamorphosis
Romitelli was born in 1963 and died tragically in 2004 after a long illness. He studied in Italy with Donatoni, and later at IRCAM with the spectralists. His work blends the sonic experiments of spectralism with psychedelic rock in the kind of hybridization of art and popular music more common of the New York Downtown scene. His work is wild and exciting, and often combines acoustic and electric instruments with other bizarre sound sources creating a hallucinatory atmosphere. The Talea En…
Nell'alto dei giorni immobili
The album is dedicated to Fausto Romitelli and includes his composition for six instruments "Nell'alto dei giorni immobili" in a unique live recording by the finnish ensemble Zagros with the addition of a double bass as a seventh instrument, that was requested for that special performance by the composer himself.Alongside Romitell's piece, four remixes are presented as the winners of the Sincronie Remix 2011 competition, realized by Diego Capoccitti (Italy), Neil Kaczor (UK), Andrea Mancianti (I…
Audiodrome, EnTrance
Fausto Romitelli had a postmodern awareness, principally the result of his encounter with the Spectralism of Hugues Dufouet and Gerard Grisey, and the peculiarities of sound and form associated with that approach. Spectralism proposes that sound is not something carved in stone, but a force field. Sound exists because it is a piece of space-cum-time. Romitelli accentuated the way in which allegory and fantasy can be linked to this conception of sound.