Twenty years after his death, Fausto Romitelli still exerts a strong influence on the younger generation of composers. He embodies the successful hybridization of pop and savant, expressive chaos and fusional pulsation, the psychedelic state accepted and overcome, as evidenced by the violence of Amok Koma.

Hallucinations and inner visions? They are part of Matteo Franceschini's Visions, marked by the unbridled imagination of William Blake, pre-romantic engraver, draughtsman, painter, and poet. The dramaturgy is set in a world of archetypes, attractions and repulsions between text and music. Appearance or truth? Pasquale Corrado's Eterno Vuoto takes up this age-old question, raised by Plato, Marcus Aurelius and Saint Paul, and turns it into the argument of his creation, in which vocality invades the ensemble and electronics. Physical tension and resistance of the instrument: another great Romitellian gesture? Eva Reiter's Konter is born of this unresolved body-to-body confrontation.

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