Here's something I really enjoyed researching and writing - a feature for RBMA on Luigi Nono, the great "militant modernist" composer of the late 20th Century. It focuses on his electronic and tape works of the 1960s, his exploration of vocal extremes, his support for liberation movements around the world, and the surrounding context of Italian Communism in the post-war era.
The twin pegs for this piece are the fiftieth-anniversary vinyl reissue of Musica-Manifesto N. 1 by Die Schachtel and the publication of Nostalgia for the Future: Luigi Nono's Selected Writings and Interviews by the University of California Press.
Nono at work with his prime collaborator, the sound engineer
Marino Zuccheri, at the Studio di Fonologia in Milan.
