A vibrant tribute to artists who have remained in the shadows, an indictment against those who decry the regime of intermittency.
43 sheets. Occupation: Intermittent. Bruno Messina. South Acts
Trumpeter trained at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris. Bruno Messina has long been an intermittent performer. Subsequently, professor of ethnomusicology, he became artistic director of festivals. And winner of the Villa Medici prize outside the walls.
In his novel, he tells through the narrator, the life of an intermittent musician. Completely disillusioned about his future as a recognized artist, he is approaching his forties. Tired of touring with his orchestras in places that do not make a musician dream. From discotheque to bar mitzvah to balls, he gives variety concerts where the music is massacred.
They are poorly received, they are given spoiled food. They most often sleep in a converted bus. they live without elementary comforts. They drink, they smoke joints, etc.
If Bruno Messina insists on the fictional nature of his book, we understand that he shares some points in common with the narrator. When asked about the contrast that surprises the reader between this character and the director of festivals, he replies “It may be the opposite of the image but fortunately we are not smooth, we are made full of facets” and obviously ends with a reference to Berlioz who was “a dark being in private unlike the spectacular image he gave in public”. Director of the Berlioz Festival, Bruno Messina has devoted a book to Berlioz, again remarkable.