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Edoardo Gastaldi unveils details of his music creation “I Am Here and You Are Mine”
We had the pleasure of sharing a conversation with Edoardo Gastaldi and gathering some behind-the-scenes content about his most intimate, dense, and melancholic piano composition to date
Hi Edoardo, we enjoyed listening to your recent creation “I Am Here and You Are Mine”. Can you contextualize the composition?
Dear Joel and Simon, I must confess that I do not like to talk about myself and my music. I’d rather create for the sake of it and listen to other’s stories. On the other hand, I am aware that it is morally right to entirely carry the responsibilities of our actions (and creations), and this is exactly what I am about to do… As a response to the way I behave, music is getting more and more rooted in my life path, as well as life itself is getting more and more involved in my music. It’s a weird feedback process: at times my life creates and shapes my music, at times my music creates and shapes my life. This personally is quite a critical yet sublime situation. In music, I finally find myself in an environment with no possibilities to deceive myself and others. What you see is what you get. And I cannot act differently. I need to express myself in the most transparent, deep, and sincere way. And this last musical experience, “I Am Here and You Are Mine”, is the awareness point of this thought. The music evokes that suspension that one feels in moments when time seems to stop. It represents a type of bond that creates moments in which the harsh reality seems to dissolve, where the world seems to stop, leaving space "just" to this moment (Thanks to Fabrizio Brugnera for helping me with the expression of this thought).
We would love to know more about it. Is there any specific experience, event, or situation that led you to the creation of such a piece?
The feelings of slowing down enough, staring at the cloudy sky, staring into each other’s eyes, and living in our silence are the experiences that led me to the creation of this music. I think for the first time in my life I found a person that made me realize that what we have right now is enough. It is kind of astounding. I would have never asked for more, and probably I never will. But I’d gladly pay the consequences of the suspended truths that I am telling, in whatever way may these shape my future. As Marc Byrd once said of his music, and I recall for mine - I hope that my music captures this kind of essence: in the midst of impermanence, there is still this thing that breaks forth, whether it's love, random acts of kindness, or music. It can be scary, it can be the very thing that makes us better, that makes us kinder. Thank you to Joel and Simon for dedicating their time to me and to my recent piano composition “I Am Here and You Are Mine”. Listening link: https://youtu.be/XLC6rCecAu8?si=-d4r1rdlfz0NLGbB
