aureolus • part III “Mescolamenti ed Apparizioni”
inspired by one of the four treatises of Theophrastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus
The Book of Nymphs, Sylphs, Pygmies, and Salamanders
I. Natura
II. Ambiente
III. Mescolamenti ed Apparizioni
III. Mescolamenti ed Apparizioni
Original Italian:
Mescolamenti ed Apparizioni
Translation below
Elena Casoli electric guitar, Alessandro Rossi voice, Giorgio Magnanensi text and live electronics
Progetto Musica 2000, Acquario Romano • Roma, November 9, 1994
III. Mixings and Apparitions
copper rain! this deformed and confused joy provokes the soul…
all full of demons…
the winners of the useless dreaming: Diogenes, Hermia,
Eutalius, Priscianus, Isidorus, conic sections… Simplicius,
Diophantus’ equations… vain presumptions…
curdled milk
it doesn’t show off, and for that reason it shines
toasted wheat
it doesn’t affirm itself, and for that reason manifest itself
sour honey
it doesn’t boast, and for that reason it succeeds
…and so, taking advantage from what it is, I use what it is not,
in truth, certainly and without any doubt…
the irony…
the contemplation, it is here, …it is my jump…
…the art of balance, it guides myself only, hidden and nameless,
announcing monstrous beasts’ loves: coupling of green lizards with swans…
clamors, in which all the beasts scream with an unspeakable fear of eternity…
for myself only, it guides me to the evidence of each instant, of each thought…
slow, heavy, till the flame of the origin… to the invention of the code
slow, heavy, chronic, leaden… without thinking, in the fire’s stench…
catastrophe’s silence…
the purest fire…
…and the sea…the fire…
A N I M E
A M A R O
C U O R E
a door! which will detach you from everything!