Nicola Sani Chemical free musique électronique contemporaine - STR33973 - Contemporain

In the show chemical free (?) the three pieces of music, highlighted by the video that accompanies them, come from the field of science that studies atoms and their aggregates, the molecules, that are the constituents of the ordinary matter which we are made of and which surrounds us on Earth and in the Universe. The titles of the three pieces are symbolic. C’è tanto spazio là in fondo (There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom) is a 1959 Richard Feynman’s quote and suggests the great possibilities spreading in the ultra small Universe, now often identified with the scales of billionths of a meter where they develop nanotechnology applications. No Landscape, suggested by a remark from Mark Rothko, tells us about the difficulty of building, at the atomic and molecular level, landscapes similar to our life size objects, which we experience in the world around us. Finally, More Is Different, the title of an article by Philip Warren Anderson in 1972, explains the fact that the laws which govern the ultimate constituents of matter are not necessarily the laws followed by their aggregates. In other words, complexity generates new rules, which can not always be reduced to the laws of elementary components. As bodies are made up of atoms and molecules, so is a piece of music made up of notes and chords: in this parallelism lies the great power of music to represent this area of science, where simple structures transform into complex structures, where order and disorder, symmetry and asymmetry, causality and randomness decompose and recompose.