International Symposium on the Music of Fausto Romitelli — April 17 & 18, 2021
With his rapturous, dystopian sound fantasies, Italian composer Fausto Romitelli, born in 1963, became a shooting star of the new music scene. His meteoric career was cut short, however, by his much too early death in 2004. Romitelli had received his artistic training from Franco Donatoni in Italy and Hugues Dufourt and Gérard Grisey in France – the starting point for developing his own distinctive musical language, which he called ?obsessive, repetitive and visionary?. Today, his mature compositions belong to the undisputed core repertoire of new music. He obsessively sought expanded and distorted states of consciousness, musically walking on or beyond the abyss.
?The Sound-Lab of Professor Bad Trip? is the first congress in Germany devoted exclusively to Romitelli’s music. For two days, international experts joined researchers from 明升m88体育_明升体育官网-在线|平台 to address Romitelli’s critique of modernism, his aesthetics, and his compositional technique. Two concerts spanned the spectrum from the premiere of an early work for seven flutes to Romitelli’s legendary triptych ?Professor Bad Trip I-III?.
The congress took place as a hybrid event and was broadcast live via www.mhl-streaming.de.
