Alex Nowitz is a composer of vocal, instrumental and electroacoustic music. His work includes concert music as well as music for opera, dance and theatre. Nowitz is also a vocal performance artist, whistling and singing virtuoso who presents a wide array of extended techniques as well as a  countertenor and tenor voice. He studied music in Germany and USA. Furthermore, supported by STEIM Amsterdam, he developed two gesture-sensitive, electronic instruments one of which is the STROPHONION. For further informations visit www.nowitz.de!

Francesco Bigoni – tenor sax, clarinet

Born in 1982, Francesco has been active on the Italian scene since his early twenties, before relocating to Copenhagen, Denmark in 2009. After an irregular education, he graduated from the Soloist class at the Rhytmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen in 2012. He shared the stage with prominent musicians as Enrico Rava, Gianluca Petrella, Stefano Battaglia, Greg Cohen and Jim Black. He has been a founding member of the Italian artist collective/record label El Gallo Rojo, and is currently part of Danish ILK, appearing in over forty albums and touring extensively in many different countries. As a passionate and multifaceted wind instrumentalist and composer, Francesco pursues sound from all sides: he holds a degree in electrical engineering and is active in the field of electroacoustics and interaction design. Francesco also co-leads On Dog (with Piero Bittolo Bon, Beppe Scardino, Mark Solborg and Marc Lohr) and Crisco 3 (with Piero Bittolo Bon and Beppe Scardino); he is featured as a sideman in a number of projects led by Zeno De Rossi, Francesco Diodati, Maria Faust, Morten Pedersen, Danilo Gallo a.o.

CONTACTS: 
francescobigoni(at)gmail.com
http://francesco.bigoni.dk

Biography
e-cor ensemble is an electroacoustic music project founded in 2013, consisting of Mirjana Nardelli and Francesco Altilio. Their production is based on the cultivation and aesthetics of sound which, explored and investigated through various artistic forms, become the focus of the ensemble, the common element in all their works. The key element is represented by dialectic interaction and multimedia. Only through dialogue can the e-cor ensemble achieve and express investigation. The sound is to be understood as the element of union of all the art forms under consideration. Influenced by acousmatic art, their activity focuses on applied music, sound design, improvisation and video art. Improvisation is one of the more consolidated practices of the ensemble. In 2016, e-cor ensemble wrote and performed their first theatrical work, The Tell-Tale Heart”, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, for which they wrote the music, stage direction and lyrics.  With Luigi Ceccarelli they composed the music for the theatre play Inferno (winner of the 2017 “Premio Ubu” prize) for the theatre company “Teatro delle albe” and the Ravenna Festival. In 2019 they released their first album, Lipstick on a Pig on the label Folderol Records. The main themes of the album are multimedia, sharing and improvising. 
Their music was performed and played in: Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, NYCEMF in New York, Conservatory Santa Cecilia - Rome, Conservatory San Pietro a Majella - Naples, Conservatory O. Respighi - Latina, Conservatory G.B. Martini - Bologna, Conservatory L. Cherubini Florence, RomaEuropa Festival Digital Life - Rome, 14th SMC - Aalto University - Espoo (Finland), Forum Wallis Ars Electronica - Leuk (Switzerland), Acousmonium Istituto San Fedele - Milan, Tempo Reale - Florence, University of Greenwich -  London, University of the arts of Essen (Germany), MUSLAB-2016 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México- México City, ICMC 43rd The Daegu Art Factory, Daegu (Korea), Festival Exhibitronic, LABUT - Stimultania, Strasbourg, Festival Mixtur 2018 – Barcelona, MACRO - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, MAXXI Open Museum Open City 14 – Rome, – CRR de Paris, Musiques à Réactions Paris, Sapienza University - Maker Faire 2014 – Rome, Zebrastraat - Het Maandagavondcomplot - Gent (Belgium), Goethe Institute for Di_stanze 13 Palermo, Solvay Center with SME - Akademii Muzycznej Krakòw. 
 
Contact: 
e-mail: e-cor@outlook.com

self-taught, we bring childlike wonder & playfulness to our sound-collages.  

weve been described as  
'listening so the pain goes away.'  
'like a dream collapsing around the edges' 
'focussed - highly respectful - artisanal'.

international commissions and broadcasts; awards; sound design for theatre; app based sound walk

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