Salvio Vassallo / Folk Songs

This is an electronic reworking of one of Luciano Berio's masterpieces: Folk Songs. The idea of an electronic reworking of the FSs was born in the context of a study on contemporary music. The work of Luciano Berio, who elaborated some folk songs taken from various cultural contexts, was revisited and stretched to the limit in the frame of a personal artistic research and of present musical potentialities. This is how I began the electronic work on the Folk Songs. A product made of a few but higly meaningful elements. Fragmenting the original scores and subsequently integrating them with new parts and introducing new sonorities and new rhythms, with the help of analogical synthesizers, I tried to approach a musical world that assumes narrative type connotations: the continuous modifications and the progressive transformations of the sounds along with the vocal interpretation of Valentina Gaudini pursue a new course that proposes a visual dimension of the musical experience. It is, ideally, the creation of a world of spaces, directions, forms, as if it one were inside a labyrinth of sounds, wich is not ment as a place to get lost in, but as a place that can be explored from various points of observation. And it is so that the listener becomes an integral part of the project.