August 05, 2009

Luigi Nono


During the conversations in the lead up to P.Inman 's visit to Manchester, we discovered a common interest in the Italian Socialist avant-garde composer Luigi Nono http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Nono . You can hear some samples if you are not familiar with his work at
http://www.musiquecontemporaine.fr/en/search?disp=all&query=Luigi+Nono&exp_aud=on&so=dd

When Peter read, the resonances of Nono seemed very clear to me and got me thinking: I am wondering is there anyone else out there who draws on or is influenced by or responds to Nono. At this stage, I am not sure what this will lead to - maybe a collaboration, maybe a publication, maybe a celebration, an event or even a festival. Peter and I are developing ideas for new works, are you interested in being involved?

Text Festival, books and stuff

As already featured in the anniversary post on 19 March, the field of action of first festival was contextualised with the ‘Text’ (ISBN 0 9...