Salvatore Sciarrino on Perception, Silence, and the Erotic in Music
The exhibition "Il segno e il suono," curated by Angela Ida De Benedictis and Gabriele Dotto for the 26th Festival Milano Musica, is currently on display at Palazzo Reale in Milan and features an interview with composer Salvatore Sciarrino, who was born in Palermo in 1947. The exhibition showcases diagrams, notes, and drawings that reflect his unique visual interpretation of music. Sciarrino views music as a living entity and critiques contemporary society's tendency to treat it as mere noise. He reflects on his time in Berlin in 1967 and discusses his opera "Perseo e Andromeda" (1990), which incorporated digital sounds to create hyper-reality. The interview, conducted by Carlotta Petracci for Artribune, highlights his focus on perception rather than objective scores, tracing his influence from Monteverdi to Stockhausen.
Key facts
- Exhibition 'Il segno e il suono' at Palazzo Reale, Milan, curated by Angela Ida De Benedictis and Gabriele Dotto for the 26th Festival Milano Musica.
- Salvatore Sciarrino was born in Palermo in 1947.
- Sciarrino defines himself as an 'eretico' for centering the listener and rejecting 'art for art's sake'.
- He lived in Berlin during the 1967 protests and was influenced by Franco Evangelisti.
- He uses flow diagrams as structural guides in composition, not applied mechanically.
- Silence is defined as the act of backgrounding sounds, not absence; in an anechoic chamber one hears one's own body.
- His opera 'Perseo e Andromeda' (1990) used digital sounds to simulate real noises like wind and sea.
- He compares his theatrical works to post-cinematic editing with space-time frames.
- He reads Stockhausen through perceptual results rather than combinatorial schemas.
- Interview conducted by Carlotta Petracci for Artribune.
Entities
Artists
- Salvatore Sciarrino
- Franco Evangelisti
- Claudio Monteverdi
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
Institutions
- Palazzo Reale
- Festival Milano Musica
- Artribune
Locations
- Milan
- Italy
- Palermo
- Berlin
- Germany
- Rome