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01. DAVIDE MOSCONI - MOSCONI WAGNER
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ARTIST
MOSCONI, DAVIDE
TITLE
MOSCONI WAGNER
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
ALGA MARGHEN
CATALOG #
NMN 092CD
NMN 092CD
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
10/30/2015
In one of the last projects he conceived, interrupted by his premature death in 2002,
Davide Mosconi
chose to absolutize as "concrete" sonic data the complete cycle of
Wagner
's
Ring
. Mosconi, an artist equally divided between the sonic universe and the visual sphere, perhaps could not resist the temptation of picking up the torch -- to intentionally fan the flame -- of he who made the
Gesamtkunstwerk
one of the theoretical groundings of his futuristic ideology and therefore inspired a never-more-to-be-soothed utopia in the phenomenology of contemporary arts. It is not surprising that even
John Cage
in one of his rare but precisely aimed iconoclastic incursions intended to refer to the Wagnerian tetralogy to ensure the translocation of this speculative object to a metalinguistic mimesis: in 1987, with the complicity of the director
Frank Scheffer
, he reduced Wagner's
Ring
to a short film in which
The Ring of the Nibelung
's prologue and three days breeze by in a single sequence accelerated to a spasm, finally approaching the approximate duration -- a detail not irrelevant -- of his celebrated silent piece (4:24 vs.
4'33"
).
MOSCONI WAGNER
shares, by analogy, a similar metamusical inclination, but, opposed to Cage's openly negative paradigm -- which nullifies the context by nullifying the text -- accepts a confrontation with the hypertrophic
Ring
concept, which it subsumes in its entirety. Mosconi, by a rigorous procedure of montage following a logic of stratification, is perhaps trying to obtain a paroxysm of unheard-of violence in the musical material, nourishing itself on Wagner's music -- which is still structurally perceived as such -- almost like an organic lymph. He pushes to an extreme limit all the aesthetic and ideological pulsations that come together in Wagner's concept of music drama and react like a muddle of inextricable opposing forces. Digipak CD limited to 300 copies; includes full-color booklet containing photos by Mosconi from the "Polvere" series as well as liner notes by
Gabriele Bonomo
, who supervised the final mix of
MOSCONI WAGNER
using the recorded material prepared by the composer and following his prescriptions.
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