SINISTRI
manifesto
I
Giving up the intention is the preliminary condition, only the silence
is unintentional.
The sound is a condition of the silence, the silence is a condition
of the time.
II
What actually takes place is the sole result of the physical-acoustical
conditions distinctive of every specific execution, there's no predetermined
structure, hence there's no predetermined form.
The form freely discloses itself. It is straight consequence of the
rules - as fewer rules as possible - underlying musical processes that
executors fire up and it is a consequence of the listener's inclination
to correlate acoustical events.
III
Playing amplified music is taking away sounds to the noise rather than
adding sounds to silence. We play the silences that wrap around and
lie within the sounds, we try to substitute the dogma of time's linearity
of the acoustical events for the dogma of stochastic recursion.
The technique's root is the instantaneous intuition, the discipline
requires the destruction of ego.
IV
You don't have to confuse music with sonology, the main point in music
is the time, not the sound.
Our music is not constituted from different sounds distributed in a
uniform time, but from a single sound that bounces in multiples time.
In other words, all the sounds are the same sound, vibrating a countless
amount of times, in the state in which all the times are present.
(Music is the time that exceeds itself)
Manuele
Giannini 2004
SINISTRI
About our music (music beyond ego)
In a certain way we play concrete music, but we don't use bruitism or
pure electronic - that is "non-musical" material - to make
music, we use elements and techniques from rock music tradition as source
material to make "non-music". We take away each elements of
expressiveness from music properly "expressive" as funk or
blues, giving a "neutral objectivity" to music styles that,
by definition, are never "objective". We don't operate the
deduction of meaning through mechanical or digital process, but through
a discipline that allowing us to give up our ego.
Manuele
Giannini 2004