Ontopsychology

December 2006

After 15 years, Maestro Antonio Meneghetti comes back to Rome to play his OntoArte and does it in great style at the Sala Petrassi (Petrassi Hall) of the Auditorium Parco della Musica (Auditorium Music Park) ².

In his expressions, music is a lyrical moment and, through the concert, one lives the evidence of being in a single identity, you and I, the other and I, Being and I.

A worldwide highly regarded concert artist ³, his fund of experience includes all musical educations. In particular, percussion technique, the spirituality of the Gregorian chant, the metaphysics of Indian music, the polyphonic chorale and classical orchestration, with its relative composition and decomposition.

Maestro Antonio Meneghetti’s artistic discourse begins from a saturation of the teaching that is still held as valid in the most serious academies. As he himself, states, “But at that point, a choice becomes necessary: if we want to live on far stretching spaces, without destroying the preceding one, or you must create a new universe”.

While Bach would maintain that no artist could go beyond the two horizons, Meneghetti proves to be able to create the movement of the third horizon.

Those who know the technique of music (or of composition, or of a way of playing) could consider OntoArte music as a kind of improvisation without conscious rationality. In truth, it is the direct reading of a vision, which is familiar to him; there, the evocation of the universal transcendence is cadenced in a dialogue with the human being’s In-itself.

Every passage is exactly calculated, the timbres and the tonalities are coloured with multi-sided variables with reference to an exact intuition. There is no room for improvisation, “We just let an order, which is always present, glide behind an apparent chance”.

Antonio Meneghetti’s experience shows the capacity of reading the musical pathos in the space of a second.

Then, music is not invented. It is found again.

¹ Promoted by the International OntoArte School Association, under the aegis of Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (St. Cecil National Academy), Rome Town Council – Cultural Policies Councillorship, Presidency of Lazio Region, Rome Provincial Council – Cultural Policies, Communication and Informative Systems Councillorship.

² Designed by Arch. Renzo Piano, it has become one of the most important musical centres in Europe.

³ His music is listened to all over the world, which is evidenced by the numerous series of international concerts, like the concert performed at the Peterhof Great Palace White Hall in Saint Petersburg, on June, 13th 2003.