LUCA BARACHETTI - Rilascio

From poetry to sound art

Luca Barachetti, born in Bergamo in 1983, is a poet, musician and performer who has turned art into a compendium of literature, music, avant-garde and experimentation, with the ultimate aim of communicating his own deeply personal vision of the world and giving shape to the intimate dialogues of his inner self. He debuted with “White Out” (2016), made with Enrico Ruggeri Zambaiti, on which he declaims, over post-rock backdrops, lyrics that describe a humanity enslaved to money and the market, powerless before the ideology of infinite growth and numbed by induced desires that can never be satisfied.

In 2018 he released “Fuoco prendi tutto”, a collection of poems inspired by the fragments of Heraclitus. In 2021, the diagnosis of a neurodivergent condition forced him to take a pause, but also prompted deeper reflection on himself and on the role of art. His second LP, “Rilascio”, divided into eight parts, thus emerged from an extremely uphill path that led him to discover music as a sonic material to be explored from its very foundations.

The wheelbarrow as a musical instrument

An album made for “modified wheelbarrow”, “Rilascio” may well be one of the most courageous and radical contemporary works in the field of sound art, object-based music or musique concrète. Barachetti takes an old wheelbarrow, worn down by years of use on building sites, and enriches it with microphones, guitar pedals, steel wires strung between the handles and a mixer. Touched, struck, hit and scraped, the wheelbarrow emits ever-different, hard-to-predict sounds and timbres (partly due to its continuous wear), making Barachetti's work practically impossible to replicate. Playing a non-musical object, one that does not produce notes in the conventional sense, makes it clear that “Rilascio” is above all a work of performance art.

A dialogue between body and matter

“Rilascio” is a continuous, tight-knit dialogue between two bodies, one of flesh and blood (the author), the other made of metal (the wheelbarrow), which share the same relentless process of decay, occurring in the same way but at different speeds. This dialogue between an object and a conscious being thus becomes a reflection on death, understood not merely as the end of the single individual, but as the inexorable disintegration that every form of matter is constantly subject to. A conceptual work of pure noise that, at certain moments, still retains a vague link to traditional music, as in “Rilascio 001”, where a repeating beat keeps time, as if offering the listener some coordinates to hold on to within a wholly alien sonic world, or in “Rilascio 008”, where a dark-ambient intro opens the way to the darkest, most direct scenarios of Barachetti's work.

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05/07/2026