Author(s)
Marcello Licata (composer), Lorenzo Ruggieri (electroacoustic composer)
Medium
Musical piece for Soprano, Piano, Tuba and live electronics
Location
Accademia di Belle Arti Giacomo Carrara

This piece is inspired by the contrast between desolation and memory, between what is no longer present and what can still be imagined. Drawing from Francesco Guccini's song "Il vecchio e il bambino", the composition unfolds as a sonic landscape suspended between past and present, reality and imagination.

At first, the music evokes a wounded and desolate land: a bare plain marked by smoke and silence, almost devoid of life. Gradually, memory emerges, guided by the old man's invitation to the child to imagine what once was - fields of wheat, fruits and flowers, voices and colors. Through acoustic gestures and live electronics, fragments of these images take shape: rain, trees, and the slow rhythm of the seasons, suggesting a fragile yet persistent hope.