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Visage<\/strong>
\nfor electronic sounds and Cathy Berberian’s voice on tape (1961)<\/p>\n

When I was composing Visage<\/em> what attracted me, as always, was research intended as a way to expand the chances of bringing nearer musical and acoustic processes, and as a means to find musical equivalents of linguistic articulations. This is why the experience of electronic music is so important: it enables the composer to assimilate into the musical process a vast area of sound phenomena that do not fit pre-established musical codes.
\nVisage<\/em> is essentially a radio programme: almost a sound track for a play that has never been written. So it can be played not only in the concert hall but in any place where recorded sounds can be reproduced. It is based on the symbolic and representative charge that is carried by vocal gestures and inflections, with the \u201cshadows of meanings\u201d and the mental associations accompanying them. Visage<\/em> can also be regarded as a transformation of real examples of vocal behaviour that go from unarticulated sound to syllable, from laughing to weeping and singing, from aphasia to types of inflections derived from specific languages: English and Italian as spoken on the radio, Hebrew, Neapolitan dialect, etc. Thus, Visage<\/em> does not offer a meaningful text or a meaningful language: it only develops the resemblance of them. A single word is pronounced twice: \u201cparole\u201d (\u201cwords\u201d in Italian). The vocal dimension of the work is constantly amplified and commented upon by a very close relationship, almost an organic exchange, with the electronic sounds. The voice is Cathy Berberian\u2019s.
\nI composed Visage<\/em> in 1961, before I left the Studio di Fonologia Musicale of the Italian Radio in Milan. It was also intended as a tribute to the radio as the most widely used means of spreading useless words.<\/p>\n

Luciano Berio<\/p>\n

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