Creating with errors in odd numbers
Thought & Concepts – part 2

During my undergraduate studies, it was crucial to meet Prof. Corrado Levi, an artist, architect and cellist,a professor at Politecnico di Milano who, in addition to helping me understand the interdependence between different fields of art introduced me to the principle that has governed my entire career: Composing with errors in odd numbers.

Composing with errors in odd numbers means searching for and creating the conceptual error, it is a form of intellectual curiosity that responds to a need to search beyond the known, by starting from the known. Of course, it must be rigorously linked to a knowledge, both historical and technical, of those elements that we want to alter, to force. It requires a knowledge of techniques, of theory and also of the history of music, visual art, science and creative thought, creativity in general. This responds in a way to overcoming the saying typical of the Anglosaxon world "If it works don't fix it" which in the field of research and intellectual curiosity translates into "If it works well, break it."

To achieve this it is necessary to try to force the limits, the boundaries pre-established, without worrying about pursuing the beautiful. ¹. A quest my own, a mischievous inclination to abuse consciously of composition's tools to achieve aesthetics goals that go beyond the barriers and limits of commonly accepted compositional and aesthetic principles. The only way to break those limits, settled by time, that will take you into a new realm, new rules, new techniques.

This search for the conceptual glitch, especially since the image and video have peremptorily become part of the composition aspects of my work, along with sound,have meant that that my work has sometimes been presented as an expression of the "glitch art" movement ². I never having ideally participated in a movement first of all knowing precisely also that, my continuous search for the limit and its breaking, would certainly have led me to go beyond the limits of any manifesto. Not less important, on the conceptual point of view, there is a considerable difference with my work and the glitch art. That is precisely the search of conceptual error, which is thought out, studied and guided, unlike the glitch, which is rather an accidental stumble, unexpected, an unintentional alteration of correct functioning, like the glitches in an electronic billboard of advertisement³

Acknowledgements.
This way of thinking, this research, took shape thanks to many great professor i met during my years of study, in Vienna thanks to professors Dieter Kaufman and Tamas Ungvary. Then at Stanford with John Chowining, Michel Serres, René Girard, but also and especially with researchers such as Perry Cook or great minds and thinkers who attended CCRMA, such as John Pierce or Max Mathews. Of course without forgetting the great teaching lessons by Mario De Micheli, Corrado Levi, Achille Castiglioni at Politecnico di Milano.

available as NFC as well on OBJKT

works on Teia.art

BACK TO INFO