Landscape Paradigms and Post-urban Spaces by Roberto Pasini

Author:Roberto Pasini
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

5.2.14 The Reign of Insects

In the ‘30s of the nineteenth century, it will be the rise of Verdi’s and Wagner’s voices, reterritorialized in the dual-gender system, to sanction the demise of the Baroque musical wave, the oblivion of the androgynous option interpreted by castrati such as Porporino, and the early overshadowing of Rossini’s and Bellini’s modes (Deleuze and Guattari 1987, pp. 307–308).20 According to Deleuze Guattari, despite their capitalistic and bourgeois drive, Verdi’s and the Wagner’s reformulations will eventually result in the diffusion of ‘new molecular flows’ leading to Debussy’s ‘molecularization of the motif’, by virtue of their chorality and lyricism, and the consequent ‘dissolution of form’. The reign of the voice is thus succeeded by the reign of the orchestra, where the voice is integrated.

The “reign of birds”, vocal beings, is succeeded by the “reign of insects”, instrumental beings, with “their vibrations, chirring, rustling, buzzing, clicking, scratching, and scraping”, which seems to acoustically allude to the expansion of contemporary ‘emergent’ systems and diffusive occupation of the territory in the XX century.

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