ABSTRACT
In early 1982 Luigi Nono had been invited by the director of the Munich Philharmonic, Hubertus Frantzen, to write an orchestral work for the opening of the new Gasteig concert hall, planned for 1985. In June 1986, there were massacres at three prisons in Peru as the new president, Alan García, imposed his rule by repressing revolts by supposed members of the Maoist Shining Path guerilla group. Nono had visited the Ayacucho region in 1967; one of the poorest rural regions of the country, Shining Path had begun their action there in 1980. An early idea was that Fabricciani should walk around the hall with a radio microphone – the seed of Nono’s later Decouvir la subversion and BAAB–ARR. Sound is kept in continuous movement spatially, but also by detailed modulation of pitch, colour and timing – lessons learned from technology.
