We had the opportunity to interview Luciano Chessa in Annecy in the old town at the CARE premises and we did not miss it. The unique opportunity to interact with this immense composer, conductor, audiovisual and performance artist, historian of futurist music and noise maker Luigi Russolo.
Luciano Chessa is the author of “Luigi Russolo Futuriste” (2012), the first book devoted to the Art of noises and Luigi Russolo’s relationship with the occult sciences. He is also the author of “Gay Guerilla”, both works having received unanimous critical acclaim.
In 2009, his ”Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners (OFNI)” was considered one of the best events of the year by the New York Times. For this project he collaborated with Joan La Barbara, Mike Patton, Lee Ranaldo, Ellen Fullman, Blixa Bargeld, Pauline Oliveros, among others.
Chessa’s prolific compositions include ’Cromlech’, a large organ piece which he premiered at Melbourne Town Hall in May 2018 as part of a solo organ recital, the opera ”Cena oltranzista nel castelletto al lago” — a work merging experimental theater and reality television that required more than 55 hours of fasting on the part of the actors and A Heavenly Act, an opera commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, with a video original by Kalup Linzy. In our interview, Luciano Chessa also expresses his very interesting point of view on AI as a process of artistic creation.
And finally, to the extent that many young creators and readers of Rictus are interested in Noise Music, Bruitism, the acousmatic art of Denis Dufour or even the musique concrete of Pierre Schaeffer, it became necessary here to make take stock with a world specialist on the Italian Futurism period, too little known by those who nevertheless blindly use all its recipes today.