Pontiac, story of a rebellionA book in spoken word, drawings and rock:English Español Italiano 
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In the pages of Manituana, the name Pontiac appears fleetingly, just a few times. You can read the novel without knowing anything, and yet the rebellion that bears his name is a fundamental prologue to the American Revolution. It was Pontiac’s fault that King George III imposed a limit to the free advance of the settlers: the 1763 Proclamation Line. That border, along the Appalachian Mountains, struck the American subjects at least as much as the famous law concerning the importation of tea. It was Pontiac’s fault that the Six Iroquois Nations broke their bond, fighting on opposite sides for the first time in six hundred years. There were no direct clashes, but the Senecas participated in the Indian revolt, the Mohawks in the English suppression. That’s why we chose Pontiac as the protagonist of a reading concert linked to Manituana. At other times we used musical readings to stage our stories. In this case, however, we wanted to experience greater autonomy. The readings, interwoven with music, were not supposed to be simple extracts from the novel: we wanted them to constitute a self-contained side-event, which could be followed from beginning to end even by those who didn’t know Manituana. So we wrote twelve original texts, while the musicians did the same with their compositions: words and music were born and grew together. The illustrations arrived later when the enthusiasm of the live displays convinced us that it was worth getting the work down in the studio, leaving a lasting, well-made trace. Sure, but in what form? Given our familiarity with products for children, we chose a kind of story-tape for adults, with drawings, words and sounds. You can download it here. The words are the fault of Wu Ming 2 The drawings are by Giuseppe Camuncoli e Stefano Landini The sounds were brought into the world by Paul Pieretto, Stefano Pilia, Federico Oppi, Egle Sommacal Good reading, good looking and good listening.
01 April 2008 |
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