International Symposium on the Music of Fausto Romitelli — April 17 & 18, 2021
With his rapturous, dystopian sound fantasies, Italian composer Fausto Romitelli, born in 1963, became a shooting star of the new music scene. His meteoric career was cut short, however, by his much too early death in 2004. Romitelli had received his artistic training from Franco Donatoni in Italy and Hugues Dufourt and Gérard Grisey in France – the starting point for developing his own distinctive musical language, which he called »obsessive, repetitive and visionary«. Today, his mature compositions belong to the undisputed core repertoire of new music. He obsessively sought expanded and distorted states of consciousness, musically walking on or beyond the abyss.

»The Sound-Lab of Professor Bad Trip« is the first congress in Germany devoted exclusively to Romitelli’s music. For two days, international experts joined researchers from Lübeck to address Romitelli’s critique of modernism, his aesthetics, and his compositional technique. Two concerts spanned the spectrum from the premiere of an early work for seven flutes to Romitelli’s legendary triptych »Professor Bad Trip I-III«.

The congress took place as a hybrid event and was broadcast live via www.mhl-streaming.de.

SAT / 17 / APR / 21

• 9.30 – 9.45 Uhr / MHL / Kammermusiksaal
  Introduction
  Prof. Rico Gubler Präsident der MHL
  Prof. Dr. Oliver Korte Vizepräsident der MHL
  
  
• Session I
  Prof. Sascha Lino Lemke Chair
  
  9.45 – 10.30 Uhr / MHL / Kammermusiksaal
  Fausto Romitelli’s electric sound, between modernity and post-modernism
  Prof. Alessandro Arbo Université de Strasbourg
  
  10.30 – 11.15 Uhr / MHL / Kammermusiksaal
  Repetition and acoustic space in the music of Fausto Romitelli
  Prof. Dr. Ingrid Pustijanac Università degli studi di Pavia
  
  
• Session II
  Luis Ramos Chair
  
  12 – 12.45 Uhr / MHL / Kammermusiksaal
  »Era, clessidra il cor mio palpitante«. An analytical and literary reflection of Fausto Romitellis La sabbia del tempo
  Daniel Müller Wiesbaden
  
  12.45 – 13.30 Uhr / MHL / Kammermusiksaal
  Golfi d'ombra: Reconstructing an unedited score for percussion solo by Fausto Romitelli
  Simone Beneventi Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali »A. Peri« di Reggio Emilia
  
  
• Session III
  Prof. Dr. Oliver Korte Chair
  
  15.30 – 16.15 Uhr / MHL / Kammermusiksaal
  An evolved landscape. The music of Romitelli under changing literary influences
  Jakob Rieke MHL
  
  16.15 – 17 Uhr / MHL / Kammermusiksaal
  Truth – a horror trip: Fausto Romitelli’s Professor Bad Trip experienced from an educational philosophical point of view
  Prof. Dr. Gaja von Sychowski MHL
  
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SUN / 18 / APR / 21

• Session I
  Prof. Dr. Oliver Korte Chair
  
  9.30 – 10.15 Uhr / MHL / Kammermusiksaal
  Sonic pleasure pushing the limits. Experimentations in sound from Varèse to Romitelli, and beyond
  Prof. Dr. Pascal Decroupet Université Côte d’Azur Nice
  
  10.15 – 11 Uhr / MHL / Kammermusiksaal
  Spectral chords in Amok Koma and how Romitelli interprets them
  Fabian Luchterhandt MHL
  
  
• Session II
  Prof. Sascha Lino Lemke Chair
  
  11.30 – 12.15 Uhr / MHL / Kammermusiksaal
  Trapped! Viscosity and solidification in Romitelli’s Flowing down too slow
  Prof. Dr. Oliver Korte MHL
  
  12.15 – 13 Uhr / MHL / Kammermusiksaal
  When sounds dress up in colours: Music perception and drugs
  Prof. Dr. Jürgen Tchorz Technische Hochschule Lübeck
  
  
• Session III
  Luis Ramos Chair
  
  15 – 15.45 Uhr / MHL / Kammermusiksaal
  Structured alienation – Romitelli’s early compositions for flute
  Ya-Chuan Wu MHL
  
  15.45 – 16.30 Uhr / MHL / Kammermusiksaal
  L’infini turbulent. The mechanics of hallucination in Romitelli’s Domeniche alla periferia dell’impero
  Prof. Sascha Lino Lemke MHL
  
  
• 16.30 – 17.30 Uhr / MHL / Kammermusiksaal
  Final discussion

• SAT / 17 / APR / 21
  19 Uhr / MHL-Streaming
  Fausto Romitelli in Concert I
  
  Fausto Romitelli (1963 – 2004)
  »Professor Bad Trip I-III«
  MHL-Ensemble for New Music, Johannes Fischer Conductor
  
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• SUN / 18 / APR / 21
  19 Uhr / MHL-Streaming
  Fausto Romitelli in Concert II
  
  Fausto Romitelli (1963 – 2004)
  »Domeniche alla periferia dell’impero I & II«
  MHL-Ensemble for New Music, Johannes Fischer Conductor
  
  »Canto mediterraneo« (Weltpremiere)
  Angela Firkins und Studierende ihrer Klasse Flute
  
  »Seascape«
  Lilli Pätzold Contrabass-Recorder
  
  Pink Floyd
  »Wish You Were Here«, »Ibiza Bar«, »Money« und »Shine On You Crazy Diamond«
  MHL-Band, Oliver Sonntag und Hans-Ulrich Kringler Conductor
  
  Fausto Romitelli (1963 – 2004)
  »Golfi d’ombra«
  Simone Beneventi Percussion
  
  »Dia Nykta«
  Ya-Chuan Wu Flute
  
  »Trash TV Trance«
  Otto Tolonen Electric Guitare
  
  »Nell’ alto dei giorni immobili«
  MHL-Ensemble for New Music, Johannes Fischer Conductor

• Prof. Alessandro Arbo Université de Strasbourg (France)
• Simone Beneventi Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali »A. Peri« di Reggio Emilia (Italy)
• Prof. Dr. Pascal Decroupet Université Côte d’Azur Nice (France)
• Prof. Dr. Oliver Korte Vizepräsident der MHL
• Prof. Sascha Lino Lemke MHL
• Fabian Luchterhandt MHL
• Daniel Müller Wiesbaden
• Prof. Dr. Ingrid Pustijanac Università degli studi di Pavia (Italy)
• Jakob Rieke MHL
• Prof. Dr. Gaja von Sychowski MHL
• Prof. Dr. Jürgen Tchorz Technische Hochschule Lübeck
• Ya-Chuan Wu MHL

The program for the Fausto Romitelli Congress at a glance.

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