requiem | repeat

music for art as a new art form.

Requiem (365 singhiozzi per Dawson) work on paper by Gianni Moretti
repeat! - suite for printing machines, field recordings, electronics and guitar by Gary Marlowe

being the first collaboration between Moretti and Marlowe, repeat! represents an attempt, a first step on the road of the two artists towards a new form of music in the context of visual art.

based on the works created by Marlowe for his aural frames installations, which pursue the development of music towards absolute singolarity in a defined context and moment in time, the work presented with Moretti is, in the same instant, ambient and also co-protagonist. without creating a dilemma: in an advanced Eno-esque definition, the music is seen in architectonic way, as an inherent part of the ambience in which Moretti´s work is presented. Instead of coming closer to irrepetibilty, as generally attempted by Marlowe in his installations, here the music is being repeated after 33 minutes, merging with the graphic proposal of infinite repetition.

the suite repeat!, which proposes big industrial printing machines as soloists, is made of numerous field recordings of significant ambiences, precisely selected and modified by Marlowe. Some examples are the supertram in Sheffield, a printing room in Cuba, a greek restaurant, printing presses in Idaho and Utrecht, and finally, as the basic ambience of the work, the acoustic image of class of fine arts students visting... right, an art gallery.

leaving behind conventional boundaries between music and sound design, Marlowe proposes a composition of surprising development, with elements both mantric and transcendental. The repetition of unexpected noises brings a profound acoustic experience, close to meditation. A compositorial mirror of the requiem by Moretti, with an uncompromising guitar, in the same moment invading and pleasant, pushing the thoughts to... repeat. da capo.

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