The Number of The Beast

Marc Sinan’s dramatic composition associatively links two textual foundations: Roberto Bolaño’s novel “2666” and Jean Franco’s “Cruel Modernity”. Both texts reflect on the phenomenon of male violence, its mechanisms and how it’s directed towards women or entire ethnic groups.
The vehemence of these texts is mirrored by the sound of his band, which performs with a vigour greater than Motörhead and the fragility of a baroque ensemble. The musical score is interspersed with the religious chanting of IS propaganda. The composer is plagued by the question of how a society, which is far removed from the ravages of war both in relation to time and geography, can remain aware of its own potential for violence, removing the taboos surrounding it and making people comprehend that barbarism is not a phenomenon exclusively associated with “the others”.