Di Passaggio by Olmo Chittò

On the day of my twenty-sixth birthday, after hitchhiking for more than ten thousand kilometers over the course of eight months, through Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Xinjiang and Cina, I arrived in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia.

From the urgent desire to express the ineffable experience of traveling, its transience and unpredictability, comes “Di Passaggio” – “Passing By” – a street diary evolving into a meditation on the meaning of staying and leaving.

“Di Passaggio” derives from the intimate dialogue with the road and was transformed into a more general musical reflection on the sense of staying and going, the idea of offering seven areas of the world, that is seven landscapes – one I kept for myself eventually – to as many fellow composers. My purpose was establishing a dialogue on the horizons that sparked my inner monologue, unhinging them from their solitary dimension and vivifying them with the views of others, which could extend them even further.

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