The opening of the Biennale Arte in Venice in 1968 was the occasion for vibrant protests. Students and workers held demonstrations both on St Mark’s Square and in the Biennale Gardens, and were joined by the experimental radical composer Luigi Nono, his wife Nuria Schoenberg Nono, the painter Emilio Vedova, architect Carlo Scarpa, activist Toni Negri, philosopher Massimo Cacciari and other like-minded intellectual and artists.

One year later, Nono published his two-part composition Musica-Manifesto N. 1: Un volto, e del mare / Non consumiamo Marx for voice and magnetic tape, realized by the celebrated sound engineer Marino Zuccheri at the RAI Studio di Fonologia in Milan.
In this work, live recordings of the protests collapsed with electronic and tape music as well as the human voice, reciting the slogans appeared on the walls of Paris during the revolt of May ’68.

Originally published by the legendary Italian label I Dischi del Sole, it has since then gained a legendary status. Die Schachtel, in collaboration with the Archivio Storico Ricordi and the Fondazione Archivio Luigi Nono, and under the curation of Veniero Rizzardi, presents its first repress ever, as a limited deluxe boxed edition featuring a red vinyl LP, a CD, a poster/manifesto plus a book on the art of poster design of the French May’68 revolution, edited by Bruno Stucchi / Dinamomilano, owner of the Die Schachtel imprint.