SONIC TRANSPORTS: “BLUE” GENE TYRANNY ESSAY, PART 5

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FJ: Many of the artists who work in committee – especially musicians – do so to cancel out individual tastes and memories, and create from a deconditioned, group consciousness. Is that the case here, or are you two actually working on the same wavelength?

Vittorio Taviani: It’s a very complex question. I can tell you that, two years ago, an American university wrote to us because they wanted us to come to America, so that we could be studied like two guinea pigs! But we said, for the love of God, no!

Paolo Taviani: But maybe, making a reference to chemistry, you could say this: The personality of one, uniting itself with the personality of the other, does not make one plus one equals two, but makes a new element. Or when you go to the cafe and order a cappuccino, where does the coffee end and the milk start?[1]

FOOTNOTE

1. Nicole V. Gagné, “Italy’s Taviani Brothers Return with a Film of Pirandello Stories” in The Film Journal, November 1985, p. 110.

Links to:

SONIC TRANSPORTS: “Blue” Gene Tyranny Essay, part 6

SONIC TRANSPORTS: “Blue” Gene Tyranny Contents

SONIC TRANSPORTS: Contents

For more on the Taviani Brothers, see:

Film Interview: The Taviani Brothers

Film Review: Kaos

For more on “Blue” Gene Tyranny, see:

AGAMEMNON – The Opera

Music Book: Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Second Edition