Music as a Human Psychic Experience

A new chapter in Tony Carnevale’s multimedia author project — between sound, culture, and human truth.

After a period of public silence and intense personal research, Tony Carnevale presents an important reflection on his human and artistic path.

With a language that unites vision, sincerity, and culture, the artist returns to tell his story through what could be seen as a manifesto — anticipating the new phase of his multimedia author project for the coming years.

“To truly be… not to be everywhere. There comes a moment when you stop in an ideal place and take a moment to think about your life. All experiences, even those far apart, seem to ask to ‘stay together’. It’s the moment when you stop chasing things and start recomposing them, giving them a new sense. ”

In his message, Tony speaks about the need to bring together the threads of a musical life that has crossed many worlds: from symphonic to progressive, from songwriting to cinema, from dance to education, from research on the human reaction to sound to the writing of nine books on these themes and on his original ANORA Method.
With a clear goal: to bring attention back to the cultural function of sound and music.

Not a return, but — as he writes — “an act of integrity, human and therefore artistic.”

Culture, not algorithm

The artist also reaffirms his firm stance on the use of artificial intelligence in musical creation:

“No Artificial Intelligence (NO AI) — only human sounds, made with thought, emotion, and hands.
Not against progress, but in favor of culture: bringing back to the center of listening the truth of sound, the creativity and expressiveness of those who create, and the sensitivity of those who receive what has been created.”

This principle also animates the ANORA Method, his formative experience dedicated to developing one’s original artistic identity through creative thinking and sensitivity in listening — defending the human dimension of music.
As Tony explains, “To remain creative and honest, even when it doesn’t pay off, is today a revolutionary act.”

Tony offers a reflection on today’s musical landscape, where art is often mistaken for product and visibility for value.
For him, culture remains an act of resistance:

“The real victim of music marketing is not only the musician, but also the listener — seduced by a glossy surface, by the dominance of the ‘visual’, and deprived of the chance to truly choose.”

Through the ANORA Association and the Tony Carnevale ANORA Project, the artist has long carried forward the idea of “bio music”: “not manipulated, not built to please, but to express something true.”
A music that is not born to entertain, but to make people feel and reflect.
A music that chooses to remain human.

“To be an artist, one doesn’t need to be an exhibitionist. I’ve never been interested in music performance as sport, but in art as culture — in music as a place of relationship and meaning. ”

References and thoughts

In a recent post on social media, Tony quoted Lucio Battisti and Pierre Schaeffer as key references for an idea of “acousmatic” music — one that lives in listening rather than in image:

“Music, for me, is not a profession — it’s a form of truth. And truth doesn’t need clamor, stages, or shouting. It needs silence, listening, and time. ” (Battisti, 1976)

And again:

“Music doesn’t live in form alone, but in the relationship between who offers it and who receives it.
But that relationship, today, is constantly under threat.”

Through this reflection, the artist denounces the loss of authenticity caused by market logic, media, and algorithms — while asserting the need to be personally present in communicating one’s own works: “an act of defending the human link between creator and listener.”

Platforms and author project

From this vision emerges the new structure of Tony Carnevale’s artistic and cultural project for 2025–2026, integrating music, education, and cultural reflection across several platforms:

SoundCloud — a cultural showcase and author archive, where most pieces are presented in the form of excerpts:

““Not for strategy, but by choice. They are invitations — fragments seeking resonance.” ”

YouTube — a visual and narrative space, where works, interviews, research, and formative experiences intertwine.

Bandcamp, managed by Soundtrack Records, will soon offer the possibility to purchase vinyl records, CDs, and digital editions of the complete works.

“An album, for me, is not a collection of tracks: it’s a complete narrative — a small film where the images that nourished the author’s creativity are communicated through sounds that, in turn, will create new images in the listener’s mind.”

And again:

“An album is a cultural stronghold — an act of resistance.
In its tangible form, it carries a crucial gesture: making material what is immaterial.
Music, by its nature, spreads and disappears into the air — it exists only in the moment of listening.
The album, instead, preserves it, gives it a body, a physical form where memory and experience can rest.
It becomes a meeting place between creator and listener — a territory of meaning that protects music from dispersion, casual listening, instant consumption, and oblivion.”

The album is a home for sound.
It’s the moment when music becomes testimony — presence.
Every album is a narrative form: it has a beginning, a development, and an ending.
It’s a journey to be crossed, not a playlist of isolated pieces.
Its order is never random — it’s constructed like the chapters of a book, each preparing for the next, together forming one emotional and poetic discourse.

In this sense, the album is also a cultural stronghold: it defends the idea that music is not mere entertainment, but a form of thought — a thought that listens, vibrates, connects, and unites.

It’s what allows sound to become concrete, to have a face — an identity.
It’s how a musician leaves a trace of his inner world, sharing what — without the album — would remain notes on paper. Or nothing at all.

The album is the sonic page through which music reveals itself.
It is the bridge between the ephemeral and the permanent, between the creative-performative act and memory.
And as long as physical albums exist, music will continue to have a home where it can be heard and recognized.

Tony also anticipates the future release of an archive of unreleased works on SoundCloud — a special space for those who wish to explore his creative world in greater depth, for those who listen with attention and curiosity.

A search for essence

The project taking shape in these months is “a path toward the truth of sound — its cultural function and its power to unite people through both individual and collective listening.”
A path fully consistent with Tony Carnevale’s poetic vision and with one of his founding principles:

“Music does not exist in nature. It is born only when someone creates it, exists when someone plays it or something transmits it, and someone else listens.


It is a human relation — from imagination to imagination.

Listen and follow the project:

• SoundCloud
• YouTube