Composed in 2011 for Punto Rec Studios (produced by Marco Barberis), Post Industrial is a jazz ballad created as a soundscape for a multimedia installation at Palazzo Madama in Turin, marking the 150th anniversary of Italian Unification.
The piece functions as an aesthetic inquiry into the concept of decay. The composition aims to translate the emotional state of observing abandoned sites into music, evoking scenarios of industrial archaeology reminiscent of Detroit’s derelict districts. The writing fully reflects the dualism between rule and instinct characteristic of Ravizza’s poetics: a taut structure that remains open to the performer's freedom.
The musical material is defined by extreme rarefaction. The use of tense chords and a very slow tempo dilates temporal perception, treating time as the "flesh" of the work. The improvisational character, supported by Gianpiero Lo Bello’s masterful trumpet performance, grants the composition a twilight glow and an analytical melancholy, free from sentimental indulgence.
In this sonic ecosystem, the solo instrument acts as an active character within a soundscape where emptiness and silence become structural elements, consistent with the exploration of unexplored territories that evade genre clichés.