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Pickup ​Repup Made in Scuola Holden La Repubblica delle Idee Genova, 4-7 giugno 2015 PickUp ​RepUp Made in Scuola Holden Lezioni di rock: Pink Floyd, the quadriphonic experience con Ernesto Assante e Gino Castaldo 4 giugno 2015, Piazza Matteotti 22:00 Words BARRETT ✓ Shine on you crazy diamond​ è uno dei pezzi migliori sulla pazzia. ✓ I Pink Floyd arrivano sulla scena inglese quando essa è già matura: e perciò possono sperimentare. ✓ Waters, Gilmour, Mason e Wright: a essi si aggiunge poi Syd Barrett. Vivono tutti insieme e iniziano suonando blues. ✓ Bob Klose faceva parte della prima formazione dei Pink Floyd ma amava così tanto il blues da decidere di lasciarli, perché i Pink Floyd non intendevano fermarsi a quello: volevano sperimentare. ✓ Pink Anderson e Floyd Council: i due bluesman cui si è ispirato Barrett per trovare il nome del gruppo. ✓ Il vizio di Barrett era l’LSD che, almeno in quegli anni, aveva una funzione conoscitiva. Il problema di Barrett era la misura: così l’LSD non allargò solo la sua conoscenza, ma lo rese anche un po’ pazzo. ✓ L’uscita dal gruppo di Barrett causò nei membri della band un senso di colpa che in qualche modo si portarono dietro per tutta la loro carriera. LA MUSICA COME ESPERIENZA ✓ Prima del 1965 c’erano il beat e il folk: ma il rock no. ✓ Nel 1965 i Beatles cambiano la storia. I Beatles fanno di Londra il punto di riferimento centrale di un movimento giovanile di ricerca e di rinnovamento. ✓ Ufo: è il locale in cui i Pink Floyd diventano “la” band. ✓ I Pink Floyd sapevano suonare molto poco: il loro obiettivo era far vivere al pubblico un’esperienza sonora. E i ​live show ​erano il vero motivo per cui la gente andava ai loro concerti. Pensiamo a ​Interstellar overdrive​ (1967). ✓ 1967: negli studi di Abbey Road (gli stessi dei Beatles) i Pink Floyd incidono il loro primo album. ✓ Syd Barrett inizia a perdere il controllo: nei concerti resta sempre in disparte. La rottura definitiva avviene durante un programma tv, quando Barrett non risponde alle domande e non canta in playback. Tornati a Londra, ci riprovano, ma Barrett è sempre più isolato. ✓ Un giorno, semplicemente, la band non va a prendere Barrett. Da quel momento restano solo in quattro anche se continuano a suonare sulla scia dell’impronta sonora che Barrett ha tracciato. ✓ Set the controls for the heart of the sun ​(1968) è il primo esempio della continuità della band rispetto a Barrett. VERSO IL PROGRESSIVE ROCK ✓ Un’anomalia dei Pink Floyd rispetto agli altri gruppi rock del tempo: sono di estrazione borghese. Le altre rock band appartenevano più alla working class, mentre i Pink Floyd si concepiscono più come architetti della musica e imparano poi ad essere dei grandi musicisti (tranne Gilmour, che già era un grande chitarrista). ✓ Da ​Ummagumma​ la loro musica inizia a cambiare: si allontanano dalla sperimentazione sonora e provano unità musicali più semplici. Come Grantchester Meadows ​(1969). ✓ Il passaggio dalla psichedelia al progressive rock si concretizza con Atom heart mother​ (1970). L’artwork del disco reca in copertina una mucca: a dispetto delle interpretazioni laboriose,l’intento della band era semplicemente indicare una sottile alterazione della realtà. ✓ Nel 1970, i Pink Floyd realizzano per ​Zabriskie Point​ di Antonioni un commento musicale tra i migliori nella storia della musica. (Il brano sottolineava la scena dell’esplosione della villa nel deserto. I Pink Floyd rifecero la già edita ​Careful with That Axe, Eugene ​e la intitolarono per l'occasione ​Come In #51, Your Time Is Up​.) LA QUADRIFONIA E LA MUSICA STESSA ✓ Il 1973 fu un anno magico per la musica. Finora i Pink Floyd sono stati un gruppo underground, ma stanno per fare il disco più ambizioso che la cultura rock possa immaginare. ✓ Il tempo, il denaro, la pazzia, l’amore: questi sono i grandi temi dell’esistenza che i Pink Floyd indagano nel loro ​The dark side of the Moon​ (1973). ✓ I primi dischi di rock degli anni ’70 sono ancora mono, poi si passa alla stereofonia. Pensiamo ai dischi dei Beatles. I Pink Floyd si spingono oltre la stereofonia e registrano ​The dark side of the Moon ​in quadrifonia: credono che la musica sia un tutt’uno, un’esperienza unitaria che non si può scomporre in diverse tracce sonore. Quando il disco uscì in stereofonia la band si rifiutò di andare a presentarlo anche in conferenza. (La quadrifonia è una tecnica di riproduzione/registrazione del suono che prevede quattro flussi sonori destinati ad essere riprodotti ognuno da un diverso diffusore acustico posizionato nell'ambiente d'ascolto in modo particolare: due diffusori posizionati frontalmente all'ascoltatore, uno sulla sinistra e uno sulla destra secondo angoli prestabiliti, e due diffusori alle spalle dell'ascoltatore, di nuovo uno sulla sinistra e uno sulla destra secondo angoli prestabiliti. ​Si è provato anche a trasmettere il suono quadrifonico via radio, ma gli esperimenti hanno avuto vita breve.​) ✓ The dark side of the Moon ​è il tentativo di raccontare la musica stessa. ✓ Noi oggi la musica non la ascoltiamo: la sentiamo mentre facciamo altre cose. La musica oggi è diventata un rumore di fondo. ✓ Negli anni ’70 la musica era un momento vuoto di tutto il resto: si metteva il disco sul piatto e si ascoltava, magari a occhi chiusi. ✓ The great gig in the sky​ (la quinta traccia di ​The dark side of the Moon​) è divenuta famosa grazie al lungo assolo che Clare Torry improvvisò. È un pezzo che parla di eros e thanatos e, ironicamente, è diventato il pezzo preferito dei film porno. (Negli studi di Abbey Road, Clare Torry provò una decina di assoli e nessuno sembrava convincere né lei né la band. Se ne andò convinta che la sua voce non sarebbe stata inserita nell’album.) ✓ In sei anni in genere un artista non riesce a pubblicare due dischi: loro ne registrarono otto. ✓ Con i Pink Floyd s’inizia a capire che lo studio può essere un ambiente in cui creare un suono che non esiste in natura. Pensiamo a Money​ (1973), che parte con il suono di un registratore di cassa. ✓ I Pink Floyd pensavano di poter cambiare tutto: società, famiglia, politica. A un certo punto però arriva una nuova consapevolezza. Gilmour scrive che tutto il furore rinnovatore delle loro lotte rischiava di far perdere loro anche solo l’idea del prossimo. Waters parlò di empatia. Il riferimento è ​Us and them​ (settima traccia di ​The dark side of the Moon​). (Il pezzo fu composto prendendo spunto da un frammento registrato nel ’69 da Wright per il film di Antonioni, e intitolato ​The violent sequence​.) ✓ In questo tentativo di raccontare l’esistente, la band iniziò a chiedere a tutti cosa ne pensassero. Chiesero anche a Paul McCartney ma poi, snobisticamente, non inserirono nell’album la sua traccia vocale. (In quest’ultima traccia dell’album, ​Eclipse​, i Pink Floyd chiedono ad amici di rispondere ad alcune domande facili sul mondo e la vita e dove andiamo e chi siamo, e poi le inseriscono nel pezzo. Le ultime parole dell’album sono del portiere di Abbey Road, Gerry O’Driscoll.) ✓ Dopo ​The dark side of the Moon​, la band ha un enorme successo ma il senso di colpa verso Syd Barrett cresce, soprattutto in Roger Waters. Tanto che decide di scrivere un album dedicato a lui: ​Wish you were here (1975). ✓ Mentre la band sta registrando, Syd Barrett entra in studio, chiede se vogliono una mano con la chitarra e poi se ne va. Fu un momento strambo e commovente in cui sembrò a tutti di riuscire a comunicare con l’amico, nonostante la lontananza, tramite la musica. ✓ Molti hanno pensato che la dedica a Barrett fosse in ​Wish you were here​, mentre era in ​Crazy diamond​, ovvero “pazzo diamante”: unisce l’idea dello splendore con quella della follia. (Il diamante è una delle tante forme allotropiche in cui può presentarsi il carbonio. Una forma perfetta: tetraedica. Italo Calvino, nella raccolta ​Fiabe Italiane​, dedica un racconto alle virtù magiche del diamante, che immagina utilizzato per far fare alla gente ciò che si vuole.) MURI ✓ Oggi i concerti propongono tutte tracce che il pubblico conosce già, mentre i Pink Floyd proponevano sempre tracce nuove: a conferma di un’idea di musica come esperienza. ✓ I rapporti dei Pink Floyd dentro la band sono sempre stati complessi e anche la leadership di Roger Waters inizia a pesare. In particolare inizia a pesare la sua ossessione: quella per il padre mai conosciuto, morto in guerra, in Italia, quando Waters era in fasce. (Il luogo della morte di Eric Waters, Aprilia, è stato ritrovato grazie alle ricerche storiche del veterano britannico Harry Shindler che partecipò alla campagna d'Italia dal 1943 al 1945.) ✓ The Wall​ è l’album in cui l’idea della separazione è indagata in mille sfaccettature: dai testi alla messa in scena. La band è letteralmente separata dal pubblico, suona dietro un muro e all’inizio del concerto quelli sul palco non sono nemmeno i membri della band. ✓ Dopo l’uscita di Waters dal gruppo, lui e Gilmour tornano a suonare insieme nel 1979 per ​Confortably numb​. (Il pezzo è una delle tre canzoni dell'album i cui diritti d'autore sono divisi tra Waters, che ha scritto il testo, e Gilmour, che ha composto la melodia. È stato usato nella colonna sonora di ​The departed​, di Martin Scorsese.) ✓ Nel 2005, in occasione del Live 8, i Pink Floyd tornano insieme sul palco per tenere fede alla promessa fatta a Bob Geldof. Quotes Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun. Shine on you crazy diamond. Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
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