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MONTE VERITA (Ascona, Switzerland)
- In April 6, 2014, at 5 pm, the legendary Monte Verità
Foundation, in Ascona, Switzerland, will present the world première
of the solo piano concert Clue-Up Due Abyss by the composer Emanuel
Dimas de Melo Pimenta, performed by the recognized Italian pianist
Marco Rapattoni.
Clue-Up Due Abyss was composed between 2012 and 2013 to celebrate
the 150 years of the birth and 95 of the death of the French composer
Claude Debussy.
Emanuel Pimenta worked as composer with John Cage in the last
seven years of his life and remained composer with Merce Cunningham
in New York City over more than twenty-five years; he studied
with the celebrated German composer Hans Joachim Koellreutter,
who was pupil of Paul Hindemith, Hermann Scherchen and teacher
of Luigi Nono and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Pimenta, who collaborated
with the Locarno Video Art and Electronic Art Festivals, with
Rinaldo Bianda and René Berger, between 1987 and 1996,
works with cybertechnology and neurosciences in the elaboration
of music and architecture.
Marco Rapattoni, Liszt Prize, former collaborator of Janos Starker
and Joseph Gingold, former assistant of the famous Hungarian pianist
Gyorgy Sebok and of Franco Gulli, has regularly performed at the
Chicago's and Bloomington's Opera Houses, and has participated
in numerous international festivals, from Baff Central Festival
of Art in Canada to Ernen Musikdorf Festival in Switzerland among
many others.
In Emanuel Pimenta's words, "Clue-up means something that
is in the spirit of its time. We can say that it is 'tuned' with
its moment. So, the translation of the title of the composition
would be something like 'tuned key of the abyss'. Here, the abyss
is the time. Its entire structure pertains to a logic that is
strange to the Western music tradition. But, even such phenomenon
is, often, subtle, delicate. A music like a kind of archipelago,
full of silence. Islands of music. Islands connected by silence.
Clue-Up Due Abyss is based on Images 1 and 2 for piano by Claude
Debussy. The method of composition was not the virtual four-dimensional
world as I've worked since a long time. Essentially, I worked
on stochastic selection of frequencies, on the creation of specific
groups, on the translation between different digital processes
and, so, elaborating a principle of order in a non-hypotactic
logic, inside a teleonomic environment".
Monte Verità is one of the most emblematic places all over
Europe in the twentieth century, where some of the most important
personages of culture and art of the last hundred years have been
present, people like Hermann Hesse, Paul Klee, Nan June Paik,
Edgar Morin, René Berger or Francis Ford Coppola among
so many others.
Clue-Up Due Abyss is dedicated to Marco Rapattoni. In its integral
version, the concert has three hours, but in its world première
it will have only forty minutes.
The world première of Clue-Up Due Abyss will be presented
by Lucrezia De Domizio, Baroness Durini, who worked over many
years with Joseph Beuys. In 2004, Baroness Durini planted an oak
tree at Monte Verità as part of an international work in
memory of the German Master. In 2011, she donated the great collection
of Beuys' artworks to the Kunsthaus Zürich. Having intensely
worked in the last fifty years with Joseph Beuys, Harald Szeemann,
Pierre Restany, Mario Merz and Emanuel Pimenta among others, Baroness
Durini is a unique personage in the world contemporary art history.