At the Salone del Mobile.Milano “The sweet anticipation” of Paolo Sorrentino imposes himself as a sensory experience.
An installation, of course, but also a story about time, suspension and on the very human need to slow down.
The soundtrack
To weave the sound dimension of this journey, Max Casacci: founder of the Subsonica, producer, sound architect.
Casacci does not compose in a traditional sense. His contribution does not overmate the images, but he lives them. It is music without instruments – beats, rustles, voices of water, organic whispers – which builds an invisible yet concrete landscape. Like the silence that precedes important news, the sound here is loaded with an almost sacred tension. There is no recognizable rhythm, there is no melody, but a deep breath that crosses the space and model.
Sound as inner time
In the project conceived with Sorrentino and the scenographer Margherita Palli, Casacci works by dive. The sound is not accompaniment, it is substance. The frequencies merge with the materials, with the shredded lights, with suspended geometries. The visitor does not walk: floats in a dilated time, marked by vibrations rather than seconds. A emotional, perceptive time, which moves against the frantic beat of contemporaneity.
A score on tiptoe
The sweet expectation does not tell, but suggests. And Casacci's music does the same: avoid emotional shortcuts, cinematographic emphasis, to stay balanced on the edge of the unspoken. It is a composition that consoles without falling asleep, that rests without frightening. Like the time of waiting: an empty space only apparently, which can be transformed into the opening, metamorphosis, unveiling.
Beyond the design: a sound poster
In the hyperfunctional context of the Salone, where each project tends to respond to a need, the sweet expectation asks a question. And it also does it through the sound: what remains when there is nothing to do if you don't wait? The answer is not written, but it resonates under the bass that envelops, in the pauses full of meaning, in the vibrations that accompany the body and the spirit.
