Walter Marchetti
Walter Marchetti (1931 to 2015) spent the first half of his life, in his own words, "condemned" to bread-and-butter jobs: grape harvester, bricklayer, saddler, wine seller, metal shearer, turner, frame welder and an ample etcetera. In music he was self-taught; his attempts at serious study came to nothing, he said, because the establishment seemed to him a complete farce. In the early 1960s he moved to Spain and in 1964 founded the ZAJ group with his close friend and lifelong collaborator Juan Hidalgo, a Spanish cousin of Fluxus built on silence, walking, absurd actions and Cage's lessons.
Walter Marchetti (1931 to 2015) spent the first half of his life, in his own words, "condemned" to bread-and-butter jobs: grape harvester, bricklayer, saddler, wine seller, metal shearer, turner, frame welder and an ample etcetera. In music he was self-taught; his attempts at serious study came to nothing, he said, because the establishment seemed to him a complete farce. In the early 1960s he moved to Spain and in 1964 founded the ZAJ group with his close friend and lifelong collaborator Juan Hidalgo, a Spanish cousin of Fluxus built on silence, walking, absurd actions and Cage's lessons.
