Gabriele Tinti and Massimo Pupillo Release 'Songs of Stone' Album

Poet Gabriele Tinti and musician Massimo Pupillo, founder of the experimental rock band Zu, have released an album titled 'Songs of Stone' on Subsound Records. The project originated as a sound installation for the Baths of Diocletian but was transformed into an album due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The album features readings by actor Malcolm McDowell of Tinti's poems from his 2020 book 'Sanguinamenti – Incipit Tragoedia', which contains 140 Greek and Latin funerary epigrams inspired by stone inscriptions from the Museo Nazionale Romano, Musei Capitolini, and Museo Archeologico di Napoli. Tinti uses the elegiac couplet meter, traditionally employed for laments and funerary inscriptions. Pupillo created an imaginary theater of sound around McDowell's processed voice, resulting in a sonic flow between dream and nightmare.