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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

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