»These are the questionable teachings of Professor Bad Trip, who clearly loves psychedelic and progressive rock as well as the avant-garde of the techno scene,« wrote the composer Fausto Romitelli, explaining the expressive soundscapes of his triptych »Professor Bad Trip«. A musical high that fits the theme of the International Music Festival: Sex, Drugs and Rock ’n’ Roll.
Inspired by Henri Michaux, a Belgian author and artist who became famous for his LSD and mescaline experiments, Romitelli composed this three-part work. The colourful worlds of intoxication described by Michaux fitted perfectly with the music swirling around in the mind of the composer, who died in 2004.
Conductor Maxime Pascal is an absolute specialist in 20th- and 21st-century music: in Paris, he is leading the ambitious project to perform Karlheinz Stockhausen’s monumental work »LICHT« cyclically for the first time. Also on board is his ensemble Le Balcon, which has also rehearsed Romitelli’s psychedelic triptych »Professor Bad Trip« with him.
PERFORMERS
Le Balcon ensemble
Giani Caserotto electric guitar
Maxime Pascal conductor
PROGRAM
Fausto Romitelli
Trash TV Trance
Fausto Romitelli
Professor Bad Trip: Lesson I
Fausto Romitelli
Professor Bad Trip: Lesson II
Fausto Romitelli
Professor Bad Trip: Lesson III
