walter marchetti
: natura morta
: concerto per la mano sinistra
mindless acts of beauty
a concerto for the wrong hand
throwing rocks down a well
playing birdcalls in a wooded area
a score in the form of a walking map
an umbrella trying to protect from the sound of rain
the decay of tones under a blanket of rotting fruits and vegetables
a pianoconcerto in a pigsty
"the most beautiful pianomusic ever written" (Robert Ashley)
"the most extreme noise I've heard" (Steven Stapleton)
Where Cage honored sounds that music refused to include, Marchetti points out what music simply can’t encompass.
His scores are seemingly impossible to interpret or to perform, hinting at music so dense that it exhausts itself
in sonic ambience, or at music that hints at ambience itself.
Marchetti produces music that always flows in a peculiar balance between randomness and purpose.
No matter how silent or loud it is, it always is subliminally serene and powerful.