Fausto Romitelli in His Time
Romitelli’s work illustrates a new musical regime under which the work is no longer conceived principally as critical organizations or structures, but rather as acoustic devices. Their structure is discovered by diving into the material, zeroing in, awakening resonances. This new paradigm can be perceived in Romitelli’s work: a yearning for continuity (by conceiving melodic objects in terms of ebbs and flows); the importance of acoustic fusion (through integrating electronic and acoustic sounds); and prioritizing an experience that is at once personified (electric guitar acts as a signal, a “hook” in pop-music theory) and efficient (the process is necessarily intelligible, the form articulating itself through parts and sections).