I think the work should be called In a landscape: I would like to steal this title from John Cage’s homonymous song… and I would also like to use it on stage. I think the song has the right atmosphere. Composed in 1948, for piano or harp “to sober and quiet the mind, thus rendering it susceptible to divine influences”. With the Collectivo Cinetico we are training for a new practice. As in my other works, there is always something light and mysterious in the obstinacy of repetition, something that seems to have an opposite energy compared to the patience, fatigue, and obstinacy of the action they are carrying out. This time though, I seem to be able to see something else too. They seem to me to be figures all aimed at what seems to resemble a feeling of serene determination that tends to disappear: a voluntary extinction of the subject. An act of extreme love. The choice of a definitive departure. I admit however, that my gaze is not objective.
Francesca Pennini