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Giorgio Battistelli
Aphrodite
(1987)
monodramma di costumi antichi da Pierre Louÿs
for v reciting, harp, fl. and 3 perc

I first read the novel "Aphrodite" by Pierre Louÿs in 1968.
I remember that as soon as I finished reading the last page of that pamphlet, I decided I would have some time imagined a score of sounds, its form irregularly shaped and, somehow, perverted.
From the pages of the book, gone yellow with age, emerged delicate pastel colours, that adorned the face and the imaginary body of beautiful Crysis. 
A body smelling of very strong and seducing essences, perfumes very similar to those you could smell on the cards, portraying buxom women, that barbers once used to give to teenage boys.
An initiation rite that looks quite outdated, nowadays. 
Just like the desire of enjoying in playing with time; to defer possessing the desired body is a precious art that only the masters of eroticism and passion have.
The rhythmical courtesan was possessed by thousands of young listeners, ready to follow in the hope they could find the "divine rhythm" we were born from. 
Listening to my work "Aphrodite" means being going beyond Kitsch and the apparent simplicity suggested by the psychophonic echo of an orchestra that played away back in 1905 at the Opéra Comique of Paris.
The score suggests the awareness of having been seduced and the wish of rebuilding the Great Temple by the sound of the magical percussion and consecrate with full excitement to the shrines of pure faith, our hearts always attracted by the beauty of the voice of the immortal Aphrodite.
(Giorgio Battistelli)