Interviews & writings

Metaxu is a hybrid demon. In Plato’s Symposium, it’s the definition given to love, an inevitable incompleteness that opens up to encounter with the other. It’s what stands in between, protean and destabilizing, in a constant state of becoming. The artistic challenge of the collective that adopted this name is expressed by the essence of […]

“in-beat-ween  zone”       It is an attempt to accept the fact that the body has an e-motive intelligence of its own. The sound connected to the body produces a complex soundscape,  in which the body absorbs the sound in the process, acts in the flow.  

X-Scape Interview to Martux_m Question: _Could you tell me about how this project was born: how did the concept of the live show come about and how did you arrive at the production of the DVD? M.M. The X-Scape project comes from a long gestation period, everything always starts from a desire; a desire to […]

X-Scape Interview by Claudia D’Alonzo for Digicult Martux: _Can you tell me about how this project came about: how did the concept of the live show originate and how did you come to produce the DVD? M.M. The X-Scape project comes from a long gestation period, everything always starts from a desire; the desire to […]

The new processes of sound experimentation, in Italy as in other parts of this new colonization called Europe, face profound difficulties. In Italy, all this depends mainly on radically changed political and social conditions (right-wing parties led by the owner of almost all media outlets). Our societies are increasingly alienating what are the universes of […]

NEBULA by Martux_m   “One does not exist in the world, one becomes with the world, everything is vision, one becomes universe, one becomes animal, vegetable, molecular, one becomes zero,” speed of movement: letting oneself be carried by the flow, rhythms and melodies intertwining and evolving, creating a kind of sound landscape in constant transformation […]

Metaxu “There is a hidden, transcendent compositional principle that is not sound, that is not audible in itself. A degree of warmth, an intensity of white, a sound, diary of a feeling that has no less time than a perpetual calendar; meteors that live in our gait, the indefinite time of the event, the unstable […]

A reflection on the concept of contemporary music (in the sense of contemporaneity of sounds) The new processes of sound experimentation, in Italy as in other parts of this new colonization called Europe, face profound difficulties. In Italy, all this depends mainly on radically changed political and social conditions (right-wing parties led by the owner […]

The ‘encounter takes place on a parallelism between the present body and acousmatic body on a reflection of one in the other, double transgression: Sound by flesh and flesh by sound to produce a machine of sensation, creator of perceptions wrested from perception, of affections uprooted from feeling, of sensations alienated from common opinion. Creating […]

  All of M. Chion’s work is a “painting with sounds,” a transfer of a visual image onto the acoustic plane, an art of sounds. In this art of sounds, “the ear” becomes the primary mediator, “listening” becomes one of the most important compositional characteristics, “composing by listening.” Then emerges the essential relationship, the complicity […]

MILES DAVIS, TODAY … IN AN ITALIAN WAY Let’s start from the outside, from that ebony-black face that pierces and illuminates the darkness on the cover of “In A Silent Way.” In what direction would Miles’ fiery eyes look today? The magnificent shot by Lee Freedlander immortalizes Miles’ gaze in an almost transcendental fixity, but […]

Interview with M. Martusciello by Rogelio Pereira A: It started around the 1990s, a time when my musical experiences (rock, jazz, etc.) had reached a stalemate. I remember with what naive enthusiasm the discovery of concrete music revitalized the possibility of continuing, in a new and dynamic form, an experience with the world of sound […]

Controllo e Divenire   Installation By Martux_m & Bruno Palma     In Sanscrit the word “mandala” means circle and in the Tibetan culture it is used to represent the Universe, both exterior and interior. The making of the mandala requires starting the pattern from the very centre to favour a gradual opening in an outward […]

What is a body? A body, a border space, inside outside, a within and a without, how much is an “I” and how much is a “we”, “I am an enigma and I want to remain an enigma, forever, for others and also for myself” says the protagonist of the film “Ludwig” by Luchino Visconti, […]

“No one is the author of anything as there is no artwork, just as one cannot produce artwork, since one is constantly de-programming oneself, no masterpieces can be produced anymore, only to be a masterpiece.” To be in an “atopic” space, de-situated where one can grasp the invisible attached to the visible, the unthinkable to […]