From poetry to sound art
Luca Barachetti, born in Bergamo in 1983, is a poet, musician and performer who has made art a compendium of literature, music, avant-garde and experimentation whose ultimate aim is to communicate one's very personal vision of the world and to make the intimate dialogues of one's self perceivable. He made his debut with “White Out” (2016), created with Enrico Ruggeri Zambaiti, in which he recites, on post-rock bases, texts that describe a humanity enslaved by money and the market, powerless in the face of the ideology of infinite growth and annihilated by induced desires that can never be satisfied.
In 2018 he published “Fire take everything”, a collection of poems inspired by the fragments of Heraclitus. In 2021 the diagnosis of a neurodivergent pathology forces him to take a break, but also to reflect more on himself and the role of art. His second LP, “Rilascio”, divided into eight parts, was therefore born from an extremely uphill road that led him to discover music as a sound material to be explored from its foundations.
The wheelbarrow as a musical instrument
Record for “modified wheelbarrow”, “Rilascio” could be one of the most courageous and radical contemporary works in the field of sound artobject music or concrete music. Barachetti takes an old wheelbarrow worn out by several years of construction work, enriches it with microphones, guitar pedals, steel wires between the handlebars and a mixer. The wheelbarrow, touched, beaten, hit, scraped, emits sounds and timbres that are always different (also due to its continuous wear) and difficult to predict, making Barachetti's work difficult to replicate. Playing a non-musical object, therefore one that does not produce notes in the common sense of the term, makes it clear how “Rilascio” is above all a work of performative art.
A dialogue between body and matter
“Release” is a continuous dialogue between two bodies, one in flesh and blood (the author), the other metallic (the wheelbarrow), which have in common their continuous disintegration, which occurs in the same way, but at different speeds. This dialogue between an object and a conscious being is therefore a reflection on death, which should not be understood only as the end of the single individual, but as the inexorable decay that every form of matter constantly undergoes. A conceptual work of pure noise which, in certain moments, still maintains a vague link with traditional music, as in “Rilascio 001”, in which a repeating beat maintains the time, as if to give the listener the possibility of having coordinates to which to cling in a totally alien sound world, or in “Rilascio 008” where aintro dark-ambient opens up to the darkest and most direct scenarios of Barachetti's work.
05/07/2026
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
