Marta De Pascalis - Stoma / Francesco Messina - Prati bagnati del monte Analogo - Le api dell’invisibile

Marta De Pascalis presents the world premiere of Stoma, a composition for synthesisers and magnetic tape rooted in her research into analogue sound as a living matter. Here, sound synthesis becomes a form of cosmic speculation, translated into vibration and spectral form. As De Pascalis describes it: “Stoma is the mouth of the body where music takes flesh, where sound is swallowed under the veins. Machines reconfigure the body: through their circuits, they extend the reach of human perception; through their sound waves, they alter the perception of time and space, reshaping it into a new sensory continuum, into a resonant field sealed in the rhythm of a cosmic breath”.

This concert brings together Prati bagnati del monte Analogo, composed in 1978 and presented in its 2023 version, with Le api dell’invisibile, a group of new works receiving their world premiere at the Biennale Musica 2026. Performed by Francesco Messina, Michele Fedrigotti, Chiara Trentin and Pino “Pinaxa” Pischetola, the programme places a touchstone of Italian experimental music in dialogue with compositions written nearly fifty years later. The title Prati bagnati del monte Analogo refers to René Daumal’s Mount Analogue (1952), while Le api dell’invisibile takes its inspiration from a line in Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies (1912): “We are the bees of the invisible”. Conceived in the wake of Prati bagnati del monte Analogo’s return to performance in 2023, the new works continue a line of research that had long remained suspended.