Label: Die Schachtel - ZEITC03

あのGuru Guruのメンバーだった事でも知られる1955年イタリア出身のアヴァンギャルド・コンポーザーLuigi Archettiが遂にイタリアの重要レーベルDie SchachtelのZEITシリーズに登場。以前より特徴だったアルヴィン・ルシエを思わせるサウンド・スカルプチャー的ドローンが、なんと全トラックに渡り展開される激ハードなマニア向け。適度な尺で展開する全13のトラック構成も素晴らしい。

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“What can we hear now? A sound, as though grains of sand trickle down onto a fine membrane….” This sound, as though grains of finest sand trickle onto a membrane–the last thing that the narrator in Stanislaw Lem’s “Solaris” hears when he starts out on his journey to a world that is falling apart–is the most fitting way to describe the characteristics of Luigi Archetti’s music NULL.

Stylistically, the compositions can be placed within the field of planar tonal design, and with this, also an experimental treatment of static sounds and microtonality, out of which finally something like monolithic sound sculptures have emerged.

Oscillating in filigree nuances, the modulation of a drone that seems to last an eternity alone indicates that the sense of real time has been canceled–while, at the same time, another acoustic track surfaces like a distant memory, only to disappear again. One begins to think that a sonorous world has come to a standstill or has been silenced. Soon, however, a sonic texture gradually begins to spread, scraps of sound seem familiar for a moment and already disappear again before one can grasp them; in the meantime the lower-frequency oscillations of the sound crawl under one’s skin in the form of vibrations.
A feeling of strangeness and disconcertment becomes physical. With this the senses are automatically sharpened; all ears, one dives into a universe of sound, which is something different and more than what one can decipher acoustically.