and its lagoon". The film was later broadcast on Antenne 2 twice. In 1975 Pagani composed the music and designed the stage set for Megalopolis, a total-opera based on Medioevo Prossimo Venturo (The near future middleages) with a libretto by Italian futurologist Roberto Vacca. To represent the congestion and collapse of the Energy Systems as described by Vacca, Pagani proceeded to clone thousands of images of modern civilization using the first two Rank Xerox colour duplicators installed in Europe. The "xerographies", assembled on large plates, were photographed, projected and animated in Multimage shows on giant screens. Megalopolis was selected by the French Ministry of Culture for the re-opening of the Palais de Chaillot at the Trocadero. It was subsequently staged at Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. In 1976 it received the Grand Prize of Academy Charles Cros. In 1975 Pagani composed the soundtrack for the Italian TV series Marco Visconti. The opening theme, "Cavalli Ricamati" was a moderate success in the Italian charts. In 1977 Pagani experimented with abstraction, mostly with a video-synthesizers devised by the French electronics engineer Marcel Dupouy. Despite his keen interest in technology, Pagani never refrained from using paper, pencils, paints and brushes. Influenced by the Italian art movement Arte povera, he started working with discarded materials he would collect from beaches and in dumps across Europe. His sculptures, mostly made of old shoes, were exhibited at Centro Internazionale di Brera, Milan and Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara. Pagani died of leukaemia, aged 44 in Palm Springs. He is buried in the Kiryat Shaul Cemetery in Tel Aviv. A commemorative plate celebrating his life is permanently installed in Portofino, on a path leading to his house. Bibliography Arturo Schwartz, Herbert Pagani: la scrittura della vita, Macef, Milan, 1991. Paolo Levi, Aldo Spirito, Philippe Fresco, Herbert Pagani: Opere 1963–1986, Spazio Skema, Rome, 1986. Discography 1967: Una sera con Herbert Pagani (Private Pressing) 1969: Amicizia (Mama, RPLP-001) 1973: Megalopolis (Mama, RPLP-002) 1975: Ballate dal Marco Visconti (RCA, TPL1-1155) 1976: Palcoscenico (RCA, TPL-1-1225) References External links Herbert Pagani Quelques titres à écouter Herbert Pagani http://www.megalopolis.it/old (old page) http://www.megalopolis.it (new page) 1944 births 1988 deaths Italian contemporary artists Italian musicians Italian emigrants to the United States Jewish artists Jewish musicians Libyan emigrants to Italy Libyan Jews People from Tripoli, Libya Libyan people of Italian descent 20th-century Italian Jews