Saturdays
January 5, 12, 19 & 26
2 - 8 pm
Opening Reception: January 5, 6 - 8 PM
Walter Branchi
For the first exhibition in its new space, Diapason presents an installation of five pieces from Walter Branchi's Intero.
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Ora, di terra
- Farsi respiro
- Grave
- Aria tessi e ritessi
- Traluce
"I think of music in a systemic way, as one huge composition, made up of parts which may be performed separately but are not isolated from one another. I conceive of the work as a whole which will take my entire life to compose and will never be completed, a 'canto' where each part includes the whole and is included by it. Every such part can be performed alone, in sequence or in counterpoint with the other parts of Intero." - WB
A pioneering figure of electronic music in Italy, Walter Branchi has taught composition at both the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Conservatory G. Rossini in Pesaro. He was a member of the Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza from 1966 to 1975, and in 1967 founded the electronic music studio Studio R7 with Franco Evangelisti, Domenico Guaccero, Egisto Macchi, Gino Marinuzzi Jr. and technicians Paolo Ketoff and Guido Guiducci in Rome. He also founded LEMS (Laboratorio Elettronico per la Musica Sperimentale / Electronic Studio for Experimental Music) in Pesaro, which he directed for six years. He is the author of the first textbook in Italy on the technology of electronic music, Tecnologia della musica elettronica (Electronic Music Technology), and worked with Unesco in Italy publishing theoretical and technical articles and books on contemporary music theory, including "Intervalli e sistemi di intonazione" ("Intervals and Tuning Systems") and "Verso-l'uno" ("Toward Oneness"). From 1973 to 1977 he was a member of the Gruppo Intercodice ALTR, and in 1977, together with Guido Baggiani, he co-founded Musica Verticale. In 1979 Branchi won a Fulbright fellowship to Princeton University where he first began his major work on the composition of Intero, and in 1983 he was invited by Stanford University as visiting composer at the Centre for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, where he composed Le ali di Angelico, another part of Intero. In 1987 he founded Musica/Complessità, and in 1996, together with Roberto Laneri, Harmonices Mundi was composed and presented for Orvieto. He has recently performed and lectured at the Conservatorio G. Rossini, Pesaro, Italy; Musikene - Centro Superior de Mœsica, San Sebastian, Spain; Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Facultad de Artes Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile; Wesleyan University; Teatrino Groggia, Venezia, Italy; Princeton University; and the New York Friends Meeting House.
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