Sounds and Silence Page #2

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The banda's orchestration...

corresponds

to the register of classical opera.

Every Friday evening about 8 o'clock

there was an opera broadcast,

sponsored by "Martini Rossi",

the aperitif makers.

The programme was very popular.

Everyone knew the pieces,

just as one knows the pop songs today.

That music gives me shivers.

It is a question of popularity.

For example, in "Tosca"...

Puccini is telling a very emotional story.

But there are also

people who detest the opera.

With respect,

it's fine with me.

My position is hard.

I'm no academic musician,

I play the bandoneon,

I compose, without ever having attended

the conservatory or university,

but I have to play

with academic musicians,

with jazz musicians,

with folk musicians,

with tango musicians.

So what is my position?

Then I think, I have,

after all, created something new.

Play something...

Pretty girls...

Gianni!

Your wife will see you...

I've had an accordion made for me,

which has not much similarity

with a traditional accordion.

If he starts talking about his instrument,

we'll miss the train.

I haven't the mentality

of an accordion player,

I am the orchestra.

To play with him

I had an instrument made...

whose sound was as near as possible

to that of his instrument...

And why?

Because the clarinet

is the better instrument. -No, no.

Unfortunately Mozart

didn't know that instrument,

otherwise he'd certainly

have composed for it.

We will soon have finished our tour...

This is interesting -

like an abstraction of a piano key.

Should we include it...

It's really lovely, it moves around...

like a picture puzzle.

We had that several times...

It was in 2006, the war in Lebanon.

That was a shock.

I couldn't just go

into my music room any more,

to work on my music alone,

as if nothing had happened.

I couldn't go on like that.

I wanted to go into Lebanon with a camera,

and document conversations

with intellectuals, artists and friends.

And then I got the idea of making a film.

Lebanon is the most democratic country

in the Arab world.

There has been great freedom of speech

for a long time.

But they are hitting at it.

Other Arab governments

which are regarded as moderate,

are despotic regimes.

This whole business is a great mix-up.

It is as if words have lost their meaning.

Some people's "terrorists"

are other people's "freedom fighters".

I do not believe in sound as such,

as part of a work of art,

but as a life story.

A story that appears through sound,

and through it, as through

a communication cable...

finds its way to its recipient,

the listener.

For me treasures...

are contained in this sound,

the barking of dogs,

the singing of birds,

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