Creation: 4 November 1979, Milan, by Percussions of the Teatro alla Scala
Musicians: 6 percussions, real-time processing (2 loudspeakers, 3 contact microphones, 3 ring modulators and 3 frequency generators)
Duration: 14′
Publishing: Ricordi
Con Luigi Dallapiccola is another attempt against a current trend, also lazy, of forms, both terrestrial and interstellar, that adapt to “common sense”, within a permitted and accepted game, with rules that tend to institutionalise a supposed “absolute” of time, thought and reason, a supreme order that defines “at the same time a code of discipline for all human behaviour. “Con Luigi Dallapiccola is an attempt to re-propose, in a new reading, the multiple spaces of his musical thought, in the concretised and concretising autonomies, in his scores, in the performances, in the critical studies.
Luigi Nono (IRCAM)