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Artist
Walter Marchetti
12+ albums
experimentalfluxusField Recordingcontemporary classicalcomposer
about
Walter Marchetti is one of the most original and controversial authors in the world of contemporary musical creation. In his works he has always explored and focused on the fine line that links music to his own visual representation. He does this with an unmistakable realistic rigor, blending subtle provocation and paradox, without ever breaking from a refined poetic allusiveness. He is undoubtedly one of the protagonists of the Neo-avant-garde musical scene since the end of the 50’s and one of the first European composers to have accepted the iconoclastic challenge of John Cage’s Dekomponieren. He is a pioneer of action music and performance art, and in 1964 his historic collaboration with Juan Hidalgo in Madrid gave rise to the legendary ZAJ group. His works, as a whole, constitute one of the rare examples of conscious extension of aesthetic radicalism to musical poetics. "When I was young, I wasn’t shrewd enough to close my ears in time." Walter Marchetti was born in 1931 and holds the Chair of Eventology at the Department of Advanced Arts at the University of Hoggar, Wasteland. After a number of years of research in the now distant 1950s on "Synthetic Artists of Freedom"–a movement which rejected the inexorability of entropy as the final destiny of everything–in 1965-66 he published in Madrid Arpocrate seduto sul loto, a real treatise on Eventology. He describes himself as follows: "I was condemned to go to work while still quite young, and I have worked at various ti
top songs
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Per la sete dell'orecchio
2502Music for Amplified Toy Pianos (1960) - instrumental
2093Per la sete dell'orecchio, 1976
205401 Per la sete dell'orecchio, 1976
1715433 (In tre parti: 30 / 223 / 140) (1952) - instrumental
1636Il Coma Regna
1267Parte prima
1188Coma Liquido
1159Coma Vigile
11010Natura morta
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