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"When I was young, I wrote music without asking toomany questions, that is, without being aware of thequestionsIwasasking,andaskingmyself.Iwrotebydigging into the sound of the instruments, and thisdigging was my only horizon of consciousness: I wasyoung.
In the African-American musical culture throughwhich I entered music, one of the fundamentalconcepts is the personalization of sound: within acollective expression, each musician strives for amanifestation of individuality whose recognizabilityis a prerequisite for communal experience.
It is likely that my digging was nothing more than aradical manifestation of this particular point of view,which, however, also encountered others, heritageof more recent music with a written tradition – theexperimentalism, not only American, of the 1960sand 1970s, and the experiences of Nono, Sciarrino,and Lachenmann, among others."
NovAntiqua Records helps Afghan music students to come and study in Modena, Italy! Let's give them a new opportunity!
Our label started the campaign #aburningviolin and donated all the profits of our webshop between November 1st 2021 and January 15th 2022 to contribute covering their travel and Visa expenses.
The webshop campaign is now over but you can still donate:
by bank transfer to Associazione di Promozione Sociale MAR
Iban: IT52 N076 0103 2000 0007 2013 790 BIC/SWIFT BPPIITRRXXX, for "Afghanistan project"
by PayPal to distribuzione@novantiqua.net for "Afghanistan project"
