MAURIZIO MARSICO - Nature spontanee

"Nature Spontanee", the second release on the Solchi Sperimentali Discografici label, is the record of the collaboration between masters Maurizio Marsico and Riccardo Sinigaglia, a manifestation of a philosophy of music that conceives the improvisational process as a dynamic balance between the souls of the performers and between sonic event and silence, interwoven in a virtually infinite flow.

Music thus becomes a "bridge between different dimensions in which we are merely conductors traversed by energy" (from an interview with Sinigaglia featured in A. Cresti, "Solchi Sperimentali Italy", Crac edizioni), in a rite of which the two musicians are priests.

Of the three performances, "Nature spontanee" and "Tempo determinato" (a short, predominantly noise-based improvisation built from a sequence programmed on a drum machine with noise generator) are led by Marsico, while "Tempo indeterminato", running almost forty minutes, is helmed by Sinigaglia.

"Nature spontanee" reveals the simple chaotic nature of a complex journey: a piano (Yamaha G2), the protagonist and guide for almost the entire piece, builds sonic spaces using a wide range of performance techniques, from brief riffs and virtuosic flourishes to completely atonal passages or ones close to a certain minimalist school, and even moments of silence. Constantly interweaving with the piano are an electric organ (Farfisa) and Moog modulations, while the finale makes use of field recordings made by Sinigaglia, capturing birdsong and the chirping of cicadas.

"Tempo indeterminato" abandons the dialectics of "Nature spontanee", initially picking back up the sequences from "Tempo determinato", which enter and dissolve within a very brief span of time, before making room for analog synthesizers, especially the modular units of the Seventies, such as the rare Moog Sonic Six and the legendary EMS VCS3. Here, far more forcefully than in "Nature spontanee", the shadow of Terry Riley looms over a large stretch of the improvisation, both structurally and in terms of performance technique (for instance, the use of delay on the electric organ). The modular synths take center stage in the final section, bringing the ceremony to a close and temporarily shutting the doors between the two dimensions, waking us from our trance-like state.

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22/07/2017