Alessandro Baricco is one of Italy’s best-loved writers. Author of hugely successful novels such as Castelli di rabbia, Seta, Oceano Mare, and the latest Abel, he is also an intellectual sensitive to changes in society and history, which he has addressed in works such as The game, dedicated to the computer revolution.
Founder of the Holden school in Turin, Italy’s largest creative writing workshop, Baricco has always nurtured a great passion for music, a constant presence in his novels, but also in his essays on music criticism and in his journalistic collaborations, a passion that in the past has also translated into a film, Lezione ventuno, shot in the mountains of Trentino.
‘The first music,’ he explains, regarding the project that leads to I Suoni delle Dolomiti, “was that of men who received the sounds released by nature and passionately took them with them so that they would give strength and sustenance to their earthly journey. The image takes us back to the first groups of hunter-gatherers who travelled the high altitudes, on impervious and ever-changing paths, “nomads because they danced with nature to the rhythm of its seasons”.
