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Voicing the Labyrinth: the Collaborations of Edoardo Sanguineti and Luciano Berio

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2013

DAVID OSMOND-SMITH
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Abstract

In this article David Osmond-Smith discusses the ‘creative cross-fertilization’ between Luciano Berio and the poet Edoardo Sanguineti. Berio first approached Sanguineti at the suggestion of Umberto Eco, and the article begins with a discussion of Berio and Eco's radiophonic project Onomatopea nel linguaggio poetico, which in turn stimulated one of the composer's most celebrated electroacoustic works, Thema/Omaggio a Joyce (1958). The author argues that the preoccupation revealed there with ‘working at the boundary where the word as bearer of meaning dissolves into the word as reservoir of sonic potentials’ remained central to the collaborations of Berio and Sanguineti, principally Passaggio (1961–2), Laborintus II (1965), and A-Ronne (1974–5). In particular, the former two works explore their ‘aesthetics of fragmentation and juxtaposition’ in the context of a music theatre that embraces Umberto Eco's poetics of the opera aperta (open work), Guy Debord's notion of ‘spectacularity’, and various dimensions of political and social critique. (CW)

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Twentieth-Century Music , Volume 9 , Special Issue 1-2: Music – Politics – Semiotics: Aspects of the Legacy of David Osmond-Smith (1946–2007) , March 2012 , pp. 63 - 78
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