The Luigi Nono Archive, with a Steering Committee composed of Gianmario Borio, Angela Ida De Benedictis, Marco Mazzolini, Giovanni Morelli, Veniero Rizzardi and Jürg Stenzl, is organising an international conference on the theme of “The dramaturgy of sound in the work of Luigi Nono”, in collaboration with the Giorgio Cini Foundation Institute of Music and Ca’ Foscari University, Venice (Degree Course in Musicology and the Musical Heritage).
In the catalogue of Luigi Nono’s works only three pieces are conventionally considered to be “music for theatre”, because for various reasons they can be associated with a stage or visual element: Intolleranza 1960, Al gran sole carico d’amore and Prometeo. Tragedia dell’ascolto. Typical of his whole output, however (no matter what combination of instruments is used), is the quest for an acoustic dramaturgy, whose implications take on different dimensions as regards the form or content of the work. The use of electronics and the consequent possibility of setting the sound event in space and its live transformation made the dramatic dimension in Nono’s creative world even more radical.

June 13th 2009, 3:00 p.m – 6 p.m
Fondazione Archivio Luigi Nono ONLUS

June 14th 2009, 10:00 a.m – 12:30 p.m
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Sala Barbantini

June 15th 2009, 10:00 a.m – 1:00 p.m
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Sala Barbantini

FONDAZIONE ARCHIVIO LUIGI NONO ONLUS
Info: +39 041 5209713 – e-mail: info@luiginono.it – www.luiginono.it