Ictus and the new Friuli Venezia Giulia's Index Ensemble reunite again to reveal the full visionary amplitude of Fausto Romitelli’s oeuvre. Amok Koma, Seascape, and Trash TV Trance: three strange, climactic works composed at the turn of the millennium. A new atmosphere was beginning to permeate classical music – a volatile intersection of contemporary composition, computer music, and pop culture, like a pressure chamber on the verge of detonation.

The composer from Gorizia, haunted by the world of David Lynch, succeeded, at times, in capturing one of music’s most vertiginous gestures: the act of zooming into the substance of things until encountering the noise of Being itself—a resolve that is always, in some measure, diabolical. Yet the physical energy, wild imagination, and appetite for surprise that animate Romitelli’s work place his aesthetic at the furthest possible distance from melancholy.

A kindred experience unfolds in Frederic Rzewski’s diptych Coming Together: a spoken incantation stretched over a spiralling, feverish, obsessive pulsating sequence—the Dark Side of minimalism.