Wunderkammer

TRAME / WUNDERKAMMER

“Almost celebrating the release[speriamo] definitive from the pandemic emergency, the 2022 edition of Trame Sonore dedicates a relevant and significant space to recent and contemporary music, nurturing and asking for confidence in the future of music itself through a greater knowledge of its near past and its present. This opening takes place along two lines that prove to be more useful every day and we would say indispensable. The first consists in not closing recent production within specialized spaces, real “Indian reservations” frequented only by those who are already interested. In fact, they tend to confirm the erroneous cliché according to which “contemporary music” is “other” than the great Western tradition, when instead it is only its coherent continuation without discontinuity of any kind (…) The second line consists in the do not fall into the very frequent and often intellectually dishonest mistake of suddenly passing from the more traditional repertoire to some absolute premieres or in any case only to very recent pieces, which is often disconcerting for the listener (…) On the other hand, important works have been included that only for a lexical misunderstanding can they be defined as “contemporary”, as they were composed sixty years ago or more but “perceived” as linguistically contemporary (…) This allows a perspective view of the events of musical language that allows us to better arrive today “. Alessandro Solbiati