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The “Concerto for the left hand in one movement”, for piano, is the last unpublished composition of Walter Marchetti to be performed in public before the death of the author on May 12, 2015.
Performed by Reinier van Houdt, piano.
Composed in 1994, the “Concerto for the left hand” belongs to an ongoing series of works written between 1994 and 1997: “Con vista sui suoni”, “Eight or Nine Movements for String Quartet” and “La perdita del tempo” which develop from a preceding composition titled “Canonic Variations for Orchestra on Prolapsed Time From Development to Hiccup of Black Cherry Jam”. In these works Marchetti made a systematic and assertive return to conventional music notation, even while not excluding performative and installative practice and the use of pre-recorded “concrète” sounds which from the 60s had been his privileged field-of-action. A modality shared principally within the exquisitely iconoclast and desacratory activities of the ZAJ group.
What was particularly interesting to Marchetti in this recourse to musical writing is weakening the meaning of the rigid normative apparatus of a musical score with the purpose of annihilating the factual potential of his system of prescriptions.
The title alone is used to hide a paradox where the notes to the performer intervene to subvert the following paradigm: “The pianist is obliged to hold a black umbrella opened over his head in his left hand during the whole performance of this concerto”. From here the performer is confronted with two conceptually convergent possibilities in de-potentializing the apparatus of signs in the score: the restrictive imposition of the paradox where the music couldn’t manifest itself in case of respecting to the letter the enunciation which lead to the impossibility of the music’s ‘existence’ (i.e., the obligation of holding an open black umbrella in the same hand) or rather, transgressing this encumbrance, the implicit possibility of playing the score with the right hand and, definitively, the condition of the music subjected to its own manifestation to no longer be able to coincide with its own realization: “a magic made free from the lie of being truth”.
Limited to 300 copies.
CD in digipak sleeve with a full-colour booklet including photos as well as liner notes by Gabriele Bonomo.
Le “Concerto pour la main gauche en un mouvement”, pour piano, est la dernière composition inédite de Walter Marchetti à avoir été exécutée en public avant la mort de l’auteur le 12 mai 2015.
Interpétée par Reinier van Houdt, piano.
Composé en 1994, ce Concerto appartient à une série continue d’œuvres écrites entre 1994 et 1997: “Con vista sui suoni”, “Eight or Nine Movements for String Quartet” et “La perdita del tempo” qui se développent à partir d’une composition précédente intitulée “Canonic Variations for Orchestra on Prolapsed Time From Development to Hiccup of Black Cherry Jam”. Dans ces œuvres, Walter Marchetti marque un retour systématique à la notation musicale conventionnelle, sans exclure pour autant la dimension performative, le côté installation et l’utilisation d’enregistrements.
Ce recours à l’écriture musicale conventionnelle avait pour but d’affaiblir l’aspect normatif d’une partition musicale et son système hiérarchique.
Dans cette pièce, le pianiste est obligé de tenir un parapluie noir ouvert au-dessus de sa tête avec sa main gauche pendant toute la performance. L’interprète se retrouve confronté à deux possibilités soit suivre mot pour mot la partition qui conduit à l’impossibilité de “l’existence» de la musique, soit transgresser cette charge pour atteindre «une magie faite sans le mensonge d’être la vérité».
Limité à 300 exemplaires. Texte de Gabriele Bonomo.