Burger Time ou les Tentations de saint Antoine, or Not Wanting to Say Anything About Mauro Lanza, Gustave Flaubert and Peter Pepper

The article discusses Burger Time ou les Tentations de Saint Antoine, a 12-minute work of electronic music composed by Mauro Lanza. In particular, it proposes a three-layer interpretative methodology, focusing respectively on audible perception, on signal analysis and finally on a semiotic framework. In the first layer, the music work is discussed in terms of audible figures, and an annotated visual score is proposed as a result. In the second one, categories for signal analysis are introduced and the gathered data are used to build a structural matrix aiming at defining the identity of the previously identified figures. Finally, the third layer proposed an integrated semiotic interpretation by taking into account the previous layers and a textual document, in order to highlight the most relevant semantic “isotopies”.