Ensemble – Video – Electronics
Fausto Romitelli
AN INDEX OF METALS
A video-opera by Fausto Romitelli (music) and Paolo Pachini (video)
Fausto Romitelli
25.09.2022 Schwaz Silbersaal
Klangspuren 2022
11.11.2019 Bratislava, Melos Ethos Festival
21.05.2019 – Vienna
Wiener Konzerthaus – Mozart-Saal
PHACE series 2018/19
29.04.2018 Valencia, Ensems Festival
28.04.2018 Barcelona, L’Auditori -Sampler Series
26.04.2018 Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie
25.04.2018 Salzburg, Aspekte Festival
conception
Fausto Romitelli & Paolo Pachini
music
Fausto Romitelli
text
Kenka Lèkovich
video
Paolo Pachini, Leonardo Romoli
musical informatics
Stefano Bonetti, Paolo Pachini
techno intermissions by courtesy of Pan Sonic.
conductor
Nacho de Paz
voice
Daisy Press
PHACE
Doris Nicoletti, flute
Markus Sepperer, oboe
Walter Seebacher, clarinet
Spiros Laskaridis, trumpet
Stefan Obmann, trombone
Tom Pauwels, electric guitar
Maximilian Ölz, electric bass
Mathilde Hoursiangou, keyboard
Ivana Pristasova, violin
Petra Ackermann, viola
Roland Schueler , cello
Florian Bogner, sound
AN INDEX OF METALS
Program
An Index of Metals
video-opera for soprano, ensemble, multimedia projection and electronics (Libretto: Kenka Lèkovich) (2003)
Fausto Romitelli: concept, music,
Paolo Pachini: concept, video
An Index of Metals bears vigorous witness to this determination to go beyond: sizzling orchestration, electric and psychedelic; a voice which plays on effects, murmurs with reverb, cackles into a megaphone, screams like a pop star; and an electric guitar score of a kind that no ‘serious’ composer has ever written, sliding across an infinite range of tones with a lightness of touch and blurring of contours. But that’s not all. Something more funereal, more strongly dissolving is given off: a fierce melancholy, and the echo, as it were, of a long Gnostic lament over the fall of souls.
Shortly before his death, Romitelli together with his friend Paolo Pachini and the poetess Kenka Lèkovich, resurrected the dream of a total scenic art 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, acoustic/electric music highly amplified, filtered, spatialised, in as artificial a manner as possible…
An Index of Metals, a paradoxical masterpiece, torn between heroism and exhaustion.
(Text © Jean-Luc Plouvier)
3 songs for an index of metals by Kenka Lèkovich (2003)
METALSUSHI
HELLUCINATION 1
(drowningirl)
1.
shining growing
melting drowning
into an iron
bluegrey wave
a pillowing wave
breaking over her head
sudden extreme honeymooners
literally drowning in emotions
2.
she suddenly fell
in a metal-miso hell
a loop of seaweed soup
pieces of milky broken glass
leaves of red copper rust
industrial noisy dust
3.
she don’t care
she wan’t call Brad for help
she would rather give up too soon
she will drown and sink in a spoon
SHE’D RATHER SINK IN HER NAIL ENAMEL
SHE’D RATHER SINK IN HER LONGLASTING NAIL ENAMEL
INOXIDIZABLE STAINLESS EXPRESS
HELLUCINATION 2
(risingirl)
1.
Murder by guitar,
nickel you are
but when I pierce and fix
your smile
to dive in and dive
you rise on and rise
infected by noise
2.
A brown lust for life,
rust you are
but when I collapse into
your eyes
to dive in and dive
you rise on and rise
corroded by noise
3.
Black Iron Prison,
chrome you are
but when I crash into
your bones
to dive in and dive
you rise on and rise
corrupted by noise
4.
The basement is done
lithium you are
but when I hit and shot
your soul
to dive in and dive
you rise on and rise
crucified by noise
HELLUCINATION 3
(earpiercingbells)
BEDRIDDEN (TO)
DUMBFOUND
NOISEDIN
EARPIERCING BELLS
HELLPHONES
METAL SHELLS
Steel thrust sucking space
corrupting
infecting
transfixing
collapsing
empoison
imprison
enchain
incinerate
lacerate
perforate
intoxicate
demolishing
squashing
crashing
corrode
pierce
hole
bore
drown
nail
rent
break
cut
shoot
strike
hit
crucify the heartbeat
Event Dates
April 2018
- DateProjectLocation
- 25.Apr.2018 19:30
Romitelli - Index of Metals
Salzburg, Aspekte Festival - SZENE Salzburg, republic
AN INDEX OF METALS
Video-opera by Fausto Romitelli (music) and Paolo Pachini (video)
video-opera for soprano, ensemble, multimedia projection and electronics (Libretto: Kenka Lèkovich) (2003)
Shortly before his death, Romitelli together with his friend Paolo Pachini and the poetess Kenka Lèkovich, resurrected the dream of a total scenic art 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, acoustic/electric music highly amplified, filtered, spatialised, in as artificial a manner as possible...
Read more - 26.Apr.2018 19:30
Romitelli - Index of Metals
Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie AN INDEX OF METALS
Video-opera by Fausto Romitelli (music) and Paolo Pachini (video)
video-opera for soprano, ensemble, multimedia projection and electronics (Libretto: Kenka Lèkovich) (2003)
Shortly before his death, Romitelli together with his friend Paolo Pachini and the poetess Kenka Lèkovich, resurrected the dream of a total scenic art 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, acoustic/electric music highly amplified, filtered, spatialised, in as artificial a manner as possible...
Read more - 28.Apr.2018 20:00
Romitelli - Index of Metals
Barcelona, Sampler Sèries at L'auditori AN INDEX OF METALS
Video-opera by Fausto Romitelli (music) and Paolo Pachini (video)
video-opera for soprano, ensemble, multimedia projection and electronics (Libretto: Kenka Lèkovich) (2003)
Shortly before his death, Romitelli together with his friend Paolo Pachini and the poetess Kenka Lèkovich, resurrected the dream of a total scenic art 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, acoustic/electric music highly amplified, filtered, spatialised, in as artificial a manner as possible...
Read more - 29.Apr.2018 20:00
Romitelli - Index of Metals
Valencia, Ensems Festival - Centre del Carme, Sala Refectori AN INDEX OF METALS
Video-opera by Fausto Romitelli (music) and Paolo Pachini (video)
video-opera for soprano, ensemble, multimedia projection and electronics (Libretto: Kenka Lèkovich) (2003)
Shortly before his death, Romitelli together with his friend Paolo Pachini and the poetess Kenka Lèkovich, resurrected the dream of a total scenic art 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, acoustic/electric music highly amplified, filtered, spatialised, in as artificial a manner as possible...
Read more
May 2019
- DateProjectLocation
- 21.May.2019 19:30
Romitelli - Index of Metals
Wien, Wiener Konzerthaus AN INDEX OF METALS
Video-opera by Fausto Romitelli (music) and Paolo Pachini (video)
video-opera for soprano, ensemble, multimedia projection and electronics (Libretto: Kenka Lèkovich) (2003)
Shortly before his death, Romitelli together with his friend Paolo Pachini and the poetess Kenka Lèkovich, resurrected the dream of a total scenic art 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, acoustic/electric music highly amplified, filtered, spatialised, in as artificial a manner as possible...
Read more
November 2019
- DateProjectLocation
- 11.Nov.2019 19:30
An Index of Metals
Bratislava, Melos Ethos AN INDEX OF METALS
Video-opera by Fausto Romitelli (music) and Paolo Pachini (video)
video-opera for soprano, ensemble, multimedia projection and electronics (Libretto: Kenka Lèkovich) (2003)
Shortly before his death, Romitelli together with his friend Paolo Pachini and the poetess Kenka Lèkovich, resurrected the dream of a total scenic art 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, acoustic/electric music highly amplified, filtered, spatialised, in as artificial a manner as possible...
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September 2022
- DateProjectLocation
- 25.Sep.2022 20:00
AN INDEX OF METALS
Schwaz, Klangspuren 2022 AN INDEX OF METALS
Video-opera by Fausto Romitelli (music) and Paolo Pachini (video)
video-opera for soprano, ensemble, multimedia projection and electronics (Libretto: Kenka Lèkovich) (2003)
Shortly before his death, Romitelli together with his friend Paolo Pachini and the poetess Kenka Lèkovich, resurrected the dream of a total scenic art 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, acoustic/electric music highly amplified, filtered, spatialised, in as artificial a manner as possible...
Read more
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