A page of madness
A page of madness/kurutta ippeiji, a film by teinosuke Kinugasa (Japan 1926).
Made in 1926 the film is set in a lunatic asylum and tells a familiar tale of disappointed love, madness, and incarceration. Surprisingly modern, it is astonishing both for its rapid and dynamic editin and for the expressiveness of the actors. The accompanying musical score for the Giornate live performance has been composed and will be performed by Teho Teardo. Far from attempting to ricreate atmospheres relevant to Japan of the 1920s, he has sought a parallel that is emotive rather than philologically chronological, seeking distinctively contemporary resonances, some deriving from digital synthesis, others from traditional instruments, such as strings, flute, and piano, in a sustained confrontation of electronic and acoustic, contemporary and traditional. To describe in an authentic way sentimento that are still wholly relevant, sounds of today are created with the instruments which belong to our present: computer, sampler, mixer, synthetizers. Electronic music thus becomes a sincere means of writing and narration to follow and commentate images that are distant in time and space.
