An Index of Metals
Carriageworks, Sydney Chamber Opera and Ensemble Offspring presents AN INDEX OF METALS, Music by Fausto Romitelli, Text by Kenka Lekovich, in Bay 20, at Carriageworks, Wilson St. Redfern. 16 – 19 November. An Australian Premiere. AN INDEX OF METALS – 2003 – is the last work by Italian composer, Fausto Romitelli, an electro-acoustic investigation where he wanted to access the ‘limits of perception by projecting sound as though it were light, reaching the extreme hallucination whereby sound is seen. The aim of AN INDEX OF METALS is to turn the secular form of opera into an experience of total perception,…