Introduction: Where These Conversations Come from
CHAPTER 1. A Pact Made with Mephisto: Over a Game of Chess
CHAPTER 2. A Composer Lent to Cinema
Sergio Leone and The Dollar Trilogy
A Fistful of Dollars: Myth and Reality
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Hawks and the Sparrows and a Strange Poem
Teorema and an Unrealized Story
Collaborations, Experiments, and Professional Consolidation
Pontecorvo, De Seta, Bellocchio
Consensus or Consumption? 1968 and Once Upon a Time in the West
The “Leningrad Project” and Leone’s Death
Reflections and Memories of a Film Music Composer
Singers and Songs in Film: On Music’s Adaptability
Temporality and the “EST” Principle
Backward Path to the Beginnings in Hollywood
The Interpreter Didn’t Help with John Carpenter
Creativity and Constraints: The Double Aesthetics
On Theater, the Musical, and Television
Joanou, Stone, and the Overtones
CHAPTER4. Mystery and Craftsmanship
Birth, Death, and Resurrection of Music
In Search of Myself: How to Listen to Contemporary Music
A Sophisticated Balance between the Predictable and the Unforeseeable
High Productivity? A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body
A Short Introduction to the “Absolute”
Darmstadt: A Summer of Experiments
Gruppo d’Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza
A Response to the Conflict of Times: Toward “Dynamic Immobility”
Musical Creationism versus Musical Evolutionism
Beliefs: The Origins of Life and the Universe
The Ideal of Unity: Blend and Hope
Voci dal silenzio and La voce dei sommersi
Cantata per l’Europa and a Poem for Maria
Exchanges, Form, and Linguistic Combinations
The Four Concertos: Form and Non-form
The Future of Music: Noise and Silence
CHAPTER 6. Looking Ahead: A Silent Nod toward the Future
Chronological List of the Absolute Music