The Book of Nymphs, Sylphs, Pygmies, and Salamanders
I. Natura (original Italian text in attachment, translation below)
II. Ambiente
III. Mescolamenti ed Apparizioni
Elena Casoli electric guitar, Alessandro Rossi voice, Giorgio Magnanensi text and live electronics
Progetto Musica 2000, Acquario Romano • Roma, November 9, 1994
I. Nature
you are not able to understand…
the traveler… and he knows lots of things about the desert,
the golden sands and the salamanders’ goitre…
…a fairy tale… I almost forgot about it… mad becomes who in the early
noon woods’ shade sees a Nymph… a marvelous sight…
tell me, did you give them a name?
…Siringa Nymph of Arcadia… I passed near by them without seeing them…
drowned in the ash… I was floating in a dense vapor
all full of demons down there, isn’t it?
nocturnal gods, for sure!
yes, yes, the rotting of the mind filled with stockpiled time…
mythology… faith?
they are just work’s hypothesis!
yeah, listen to that one!...
a story… a series of stories makes up an entire life
…Siringa Nymph of Arcadia…
to solve other enigmas…
suddenly the light detaches,
they become red at contact and the ashes challenge
the nights in stone’s burrow…
immense dark furnace,
fire, its permutations… first sea and of sea half earth…
death of fire at the helm of it all…
and so again
“Cista stolidorum”, Custodia fatuorum”
this cosmos… the same for everyone,
palpable, thick, is it thin?... impalpable…
…without soul…