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Giuseppe Chiari and Giancarlo Cardini are composers and practitioners of the Italian school of new music, which like its American counterpart has its roots in the same range of issues that gave rise to performance art in general. Chiari stated “music is to play” and, according to this formula, in 1960 he stopped composing music and started performing in person wherever there was the possibility of playing with any instrument in any place. Associated with the European-American Fluxus movement, Chiari's interest in randomness and change is evident in his work and in statements like “I wanted to make music /ABCDEFGHIJKLMN/ Variation. To vary on the varying/... to give up the idea of scale/without the idea of a scale music resumes its violence.” (G.C., 1969)
In Spoleto Concert, performed in 1974, Chiari performs an untitled composition that is quite typical of his Fluxus performance style of that time.
In Concerto Per Donna (Concert for a Woman),
Chiari deals with his view of the woman as an always changing figure, and therefore discontinuous.