VERMONA SESSION

video upload by Gianfranco Carone

"In 2147 the rain fell in perfect lines, as if the sky had also been programmed.

Man came from the future, but not just any one: from the future in which music was no longer made of objects, but of pure ideas. He opened the door of an abandoned music studio, which had remained intact for over a century. The air smelled of dust and dormant electricity.

In front of him were dozens of physical synthesisers: huge modulars full of colourful cables, analogue keyboards with yellowed panels, knobs worn out by hands that had searched for the perfect sound. The man looked at them with respect, as one looks at an ancient ritual instrument. Then, calmly, he moved them to the sides of the room. He wasn't rejecting them: he was putting them to rest.

In the centre of the study he turned on the computer.

The screen lit up without fans, without noise. No visible operating system, just a black interface, as deep as space. The man put his fingers on a surface that was not a keyboard, but reacted as if it were. The virtual synthesiser took shape: not a plugin, not an emulator, but a sound organism.

That synthesiser didn't imitate anything. It generated impossible waves, timbres that changed according to the emotions of the executor, harmonics that bent to the time. Every note was alive. Each chord contained more dimensions than the human ear had ever been used to perceiving.

When it ringed, the study was transformed.

The walls vibrated without shaking, the old synthesisers turned off began to resonate with sympathy, as if they were remembering what they had always wanted to become. The music wasn't loud, but total. He didn't fill the space: he rewroted it.

The man closed his eyes. At that moment the past and the future met. All those analogue circuits, those transistors, those dreams of silicon had led there: to a sound that did not need to exist physically to be real.

When the music ended, the computer turned off by itself.

The man put the synthesisers back in place, one by one, gently. Before going out, he smiled. The future had not cancelled the past. He had simply turned it into endless possibilities.

And in the studio, for a moment, silence sounded like the most perfect note ever created."