{"id":48147,"date":"2022-10-06T17:26:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T15:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/?p=48147"},"modified":"2022-10-06T17:34:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T15:34:52","slug":"interview-maurizio-bianchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/en\/interview-maurizio-bianchi\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Maurizio Bianchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Maurizio Bianchi is one of the key names in the experimental music of the latest forty years with an immeasurable opus and a constant evolution, always apart from fashions and styles. We have done this interview with the Italian master to try to know a bit more about the mystery hidden behind the MB initials. We would like to remind you too that Spanish label M\u00fasica Dispersa has recently released a new album of unreleased music entitled <\/strong><em><strong>Doa<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u200b<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>&#8211;<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u200b<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>Hage<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u200b<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>&#8211;<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u200b<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>Rmn.<\/strong><\/em><strong> Dispersa. It&#8217;s the fourth of a series dedicated to the electronic music pioneer and we will write about it deeply in the future.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014At the end of the seventies you were writing essays and reviews for independent magazines, like Rockerilla and some punk magazines. What kind of music were you reviewing? The Residents and first industrial bands? What made you interested in music journalism?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-48722\" src=\"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage3-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage3-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage3-1024x1002.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage3-768x751.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage3-1536x1503.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage3-2048x2004.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage3-1920x1878.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage3-1170x1145.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\u2014At that time, I was listening to the so-called &#8220;after punk&#8221; and &#8220;cold wave&#8221; artists because I was drawn to the aseptic and computerized atmospheres, which formed a contrast to the deployment of visceral energy by traditional punk and the cerebral technicality of the conventional new wave. In fact, bands like <strong>The Residents<\/strong>, <strong>Tuxedomoon<\/strong>, <strong>Pere Ubu<\/strong>, <strong>MX-80 Sound<\/strong>, <strong>Thomas Leer<\/strong>, just to name a few, were part of my transition period in my personal tastes, before landing on the catastrophic shores of industrial music. of the various <strong>TG<\/strong>, <strong>Nocturnal Emissions<\/strong>, <strong>Cabaret Voltaire<\/strong>, <strong>Clock DVA<\/strong>, and others. What prompted me to undertake a career as a music journalist was the desire to transpose on the printed page my deep emotions and my hidden weightings that arose in my being after listening to those types of music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014You said in an interview that after listening to <em>Zeit<\/em> by Tangerine Dream you started you career. What impressed you of that album? You were a fan of Cluster too, weren&#8217;t you?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014Let&#8217;s say that <em>Zeit<\/em> opened new horizons to me, but not so much having listened to it when it was published in 1972, but rather in having &#8220;assimilated&#8221; it a decade later, because only then did the &#8216;germ&#8217; develop in me of experimentation. In fact, its oppressive atmospheres and its psychic-astral modulations have been a powerful stimulus for my experimental-electronic development.<br \/>\nI too listened to the <strong>Kluste<\/strong><em>r<\/em>\u00a0(even before becoming <strong>Cluster<\/strong>), but unfortunately, I discovered them late and therefore I have not fully assimilated their sub-atomic concretism. But I benefited from the friendship of <strong>Conrad Schnitzler<\/strong> and this contributed to my essentiality of the synthetic sound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014Along your career you have defined your music as &#8220;psycho-neurotic sound&#8221;, &#8220;physiological disinfestation&#8221;, &#8220;a cosmic trip into the human psyche&#8221; and &#8220;feelings in a wall of sound&#8221;. How would you describe it now? How do you think your music manage to affect the psyche?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014It is obvious that over time there has been a certain evolution, even in the compositional vein, so that the various terminologies have followed one another in a parallel way. Currently I cannot find a suitable description, perhaps because my evolution has reached such a growth and completeness that definitions are no longer needed, but rather the emotions they arouse, always stimulated by the mind, which also includes the psyche of the individual.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014With you first alias Sacher-Pelz, you made a kind of musique concr\u00e8te and you confessed to have been listening to Pierre Schaeffer before but were not thinking on that when you recorded your music. Was this the right style for a non-musician as you were at that moment?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-48725\" src=\"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage4-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage4-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage4-1024x991.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage4-768x743.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage4-1536x1486.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage4-2048x1982.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage4-1920x1858.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage4-1170x1132.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage4-585x566.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\u2014I think so because from the beginning I have always let myself be guided more by instinct than by inspiration, and this explains the reason why the concrete music I created could not be associated with the academic and traditional concrete music of <strong>Schaeffer<\/strong> and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014During the first years of your musical career, you were quite isolated from the rest of the &#8220;scene&#8221;. Did you want to keep away from influences?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014The influences of others do not scare me, so my state of &#8220;voluntary isolation&#8221; was mostly dictated by the awareness that I could create something absolutely personalized, even unique in its kind and being alone with oneself can contribute significantly to achieve this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014&#8221;Using monotony and dullness in a retrograde fashion to shape his sounds, an effect of negative hypnotism was achieved&#8221;. These words are from a quite positive review of your work. Do you think that monotony was a key part of your first work?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014I do not remember this review that to read it now seems a bit abstruse to my conception of experimental musicality, however to your question I answer that we must not confuse monotony with minimalism, as while the first attitude, in the long run , can bore the listener, whilst minimalism has the power to renew itself with each listening and even after many &#8216;ear perceptions&#8217; (as I define them) it always has something new that never tires.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014Your music was a kind of decomposition, a defragmentation of usual music into several atoms of unusual non-music, according to you. How can you go from music to non-music? After all the barriers that has been destroyed, what would you define as non-music?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014The definition of non-music is not something absolute, but relative, because it depends on the mood of the moment in which it is composed and on the unpredictable result that will derive from it. The speech is quite complex, and I think that there is no definitive definition of non-music, but only a flood of fragmentary interpretations, so I am unable to add anything else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-48719\" src=\"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage2-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage2-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage2-1024x1004.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage2-768x753.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage2-1536x1505.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage2-2048x2007.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage2-1920x1882.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage2-1170x1147.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_Bianchi_Collage2-585x573.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\u2014According to Discogs you released 13 tapes in 1980. It was the year you started releasing music under your own name and you got a Korg and drum machines. Did you want to try all the possibilities of the new equipment? Any special event in your life that help you having so much time for music?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014The year 1980 was a milestone in the development of my decomposition technique and the continuous search for new sounds pushed me to set out on the tracks of synthetic and depersonalized sound in order to instil in it its own visceral emotion. There are no special events in life, but my existence is based on the specialty of events &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014During these years you were in touch with Monte Cazzazza, Genesis P-Orridge, Conrad Schnitzler, Nigel Ayers and Philippe Fichot. how was your correspondence with such characters? Did you exchange methods of working?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014They were only contacts at an amateur level, in the sense that we exchanged already &#8220;finished&#8221; products, such as cassettes and vinyls. That&#8217;s all. I remember that the most &#8216;generous&#8217; one was<strong> Conrad<\/strong> who sent me his entire collection of vinyl works, and that was a really exciting event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014About your album <em>Technology<\/em>, a critic wrote that it was &#8220;a highly ambivalent neurotic-neurotronic work on one hand it eradicates bad moods&#8230; but on the other hand it also annihilates all happiness. You have related your music to neurotic states. What\u00b4s the relation according to you?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014My music collects the immediacy of psychological frustration and merges it with the desire to react strongly to this situation in order not to be overwhelmed by neuronal annihilation, thus keeping the creative marrow intact.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014You have done a few soundtracks: <em>M\u00f6rder Unter Uns<\/em>\u00a0was the soundtrack for a movie by Paul Hurst, exploring human tragedy. You also did some music inspired in the Clockwork orange soundtrack too. Did making music for images changed your approach to music? Your way of doing it?<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-48733\" src=\"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_5-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_5-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_5.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014In reality that movie remained only at an embryonic level and was never made, while the defragmentation of the soundtrack of <em>A Clockwork Orange<\/em> was just a playful approach. However, soon a film of mine will be released with images and a soundtrack composed by me, it is called <em>MLIFB<\/em>. Beyond this, my way of composing music for images has absolutely not changed my desire to experiment, on the contrary it has amplified it even more in the sense that using the &#8220;direct take&#8221;, therefore music composed directly together with the images, has highlighted even more the immediacy and spontaneity of my compositional discourse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014Armaghedon was supposed to be a film done by you too, right? What happened to the movie?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014The film was released in 2015 for Ozky-e sounds, and is available directly from me in private artisanal form on DVDR. I obviously composed only the soundtrack and a good part of the images, especially the abstract ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014According to you, <em>Armaghedon<\/em> is about the herald of a new era of peace and serenity for all humanity freed from its death sentence. Is death the ultimate liberation for you?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014I am not afraid of death, because according to my spiritual conception, which has a solid foundation based on the Holy Word of God, whoever is sleeping in death is actually alive in the memory of God, waiting to be awakened to eternal life on a paradise earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014Some reviews compared this album to recently late Klaus Schulze&#8217;s work, were you interested in his music?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014I followed him as a kid, at the beginning of his career, at the time of <em>Irrlicht<\/em> and <em>Cyborg<\/em> so to speak, then his music had softened a little, losing its initial roughness. However, I appreciate him as a valid experimental electronic music artist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-48736\" src=\"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/maurizio_6-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/maurizio_6-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/maurizio_6-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/maurizio_6-585x585.jpg 585w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/maurizio_6.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\u2014With <em>The Plain Truth<\/em>, you wanted to insert your personal discovery of existential truth and spiritual purity. How did becoming a Jehovah witness changed your approach to music?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014He gave me a boost of optimism and the will to discover the real purpose of life. So also, my approach to music has been enriched with new elements that are more meditative and rich in spirituality. All of this has helped me to strengthen my resolve in the search for purer and more creative neuro-electronic sounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014From your first company Marquis Records to your numerous self released albums, you have released a lot of your material on your own, especially on the first days. You also had some bad experiences with labels, but lately you have been releasing a lot of work with small record companies. Do you prefer to work now with them and not to worry about distribution and other stuffs?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014Over the past 25 years I have preferred to rely completely on external private labels so as to simplify the administrative part and devote myself completely to the executive aspect in the sense of producing music, the texts that accompany my products and the visual part that I care a lot about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014In a lot of interviews, you make references to your echo machine. What has been the role played by this instrument in your music?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014I can affirm that during the so-called period of &#8220;bionic music&#8221;, from <\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Endometrium<\/em>\u00a0onwards it was an essential tool for the development of a more rarefied and dense sound, which brought me to the decomposing peak reached with &#8220;Armageddon&#8221; .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014How was your life from 1984 to 1997? Did you miss recording music?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014Everything was explained in a very poetic way in my preface to <em>Colori<\/em>, published in 1997. What can I add now? That the factor of recording new music did not fail me because in that 13-year period my mind was composing &#8220;music&#8221; within my psyche that was finding a certain balance and harmonic symmetry, an index of existential maturity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014How did you get into a &#8220;more intimate and careful approach in music&#8221;? Due to age, change in musical tastes?<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-48739\" src=\"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_7-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_7-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_7.jpg 392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014This ties in a little to the previous question. Those precious 13 years of spiritual experience, combined with the following years to date, have made me a more meditative and reflective person and therefore a completely renewed vision of my artistic orientation has arisen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014Do you think that the music of your come back has any relation with New Age as it was sometimes labelled?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014Not at all! It is just a definition coined by uninformed people. If we really want to find a term at all costs, we can use &#8216;light-ambient&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014You coined the term &#8220;anarchophonic&#8221;. What did it mean to you?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014It means to wander freely, without necessarily being tied to a predefined sound scheme or to an indicated musical current.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014What was the idea behind the Colors serie?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014Strive to excite with the color of the sound, where previously only modulatory black and white existed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014In \u201cAntarctic Mosaic\u201d, you used classical music. Would you like to make a more classical\/symphonic work? How do you imagine a symphony made by you?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014I wouldn&#8217;t mind, even if this is outside my experimental path, but I can&#8217;t imagine how it could be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014In your long career you have developed a lot of concepts, and I would like to make a stop in one on the latest, Mikromusicha. Microtonalism has existed for a quite long time, especially in non-occidental cultures. Were you influenced or interested in traditional music from outside of Europe?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014I have never been interested in this, perhaps because the traditional concept of microtonalism is linked to schemes conceived for academic classicism, while mine ranges freely without borders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-48742\" src=\"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_8-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_8-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_8-585x508.jpg 585w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Maurizio_8.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\u2014In the last decades you have made a lot of collaborations. How is the process? Do you contact musicians that you like or are they the ones who come to you? Is it easy for you to work with other people?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014It simply works like this: usually I am contacted by the artist who makes me the proposal, then I send him my pieces that act as a guideline for the collaboration, on which the artist inserts his sound interventions. The thing is of an unprecedented simplicity!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014Lately, you have been using again your first alias, simulating a collaboration with you present self. Do you consider Sacher-Pelz a way of working?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014It was a bit like an experiment within an experiment, because collaborating with myself has made me even more aware of the improvements I can make to my limitations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u2014What can you please tell us about V\u00e9rtice, your project with Juan Manuel Cidr\u00f3n and Saverio Evangelista? Being a follower of both artists, I am quite interested about this.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014I have known Saverio since 1981, and after a very long period in which we lost contact, we met again in the early 2000s, due to circumstances that I do not remember, which however allowed us to collaborate on a couple of productions of minimalist music. 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