Alessandro Bosetti – Didone

LP on Kohlhaas Records [KHS 018] out April 2021, preorder at http://www.kohlhaas.it/project/alessandro-bosetti-didone/

Giulia Zaniboni, voice
Dan Kinzelman, tenor saxophone, flute
Luca Perciballi, electric and acoustic guitar
Glauco Salvo, electric guitar, banjo
Simone Sferruzza, drums
Andrea Grillini, drums

Music and concept by Alessandro Bosetti.

In September 2019 Alessandro Bosetti was invited by fellow composer and curator Riccardo La Foresta to create a new work for a newly created ensemble as part of a residency program hosted by Centro Musica in Modena, Italy.
The very first encounter took place on Skype – kind of a prediction of the forthcoming physically distanced pandemic times. The first, straight-to-the-point question Bosetti posed to each musician was to tell him the history of their life.
The materials collected in the interviews subsequently underwent a process of anonymization, selection and cut-up in order to create the imaginary autobiography of Didone, a genderless character on whom Bosetti composed a combinatory poem in 84 aphorisms, six of which have been translated into music.
The ensemble consists of extremely different musical profiles: the contemporary soprano Giulia Zaniboni, minimalist banjo and acoustic guitar player Glauco Salvo, and four musicians with a jazz background such as guitarist Luca Perciballi, drummers Andrea Grillini and Simone Sferruzza, and saxophonist Dan Kinzelman (also part of Hobby Horse trio and long-time collaborator of Enrico Rava). Some of the stylistic features of Bosetti’s project Trophies (along with Kenta Nagai and Tony Buck) can be detected here and there. Persistent repetitions, mesmerizing sonic masses and extended, oblique melodic lines are here led by the clear and precise voice of soprano Giulia Zaniboni.
The voice is at the heart of this work: the textual fragments of the autobiographies are filtered through Zaniboni’s contemporary vocality, while informing the instrumental writing as well. Themes and textures unveil traces of words or sentences; fragments of biographies are embedded in the intricate instrumental dialogue between the two drummers.
A final layer was added by Ettore Tripodi, a unique and out-of-time visual artist who imagined Didone in a series of illustrations accompanying the poem.
Didone is a work about the reconfiguration and recombination of identities, where every specific sense of belonging melts into an indistinct swarming of possibilities.

Didone is released by Kohlhaas as a black vinyl 12” LP edition of 300 copies with cover artwork and booklet featuring illustrations by Ettore Tripodi.

Recorded at Centro Musica, Modena between 18th and 22nd September 2019, under the residency program Autobiografie strumentali hosted by Centro Musica – Comune di Modena and funded by Legge 2/18 Regione Emilia-Romagna – Progetto Sonda.

Mixed by Alessandro Bosetti.
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.
Cover and illustrations by Ettore Tripodi.
Layout by Campomarzio.

Thanks to Riccardo La Foresta.

Didone

Didone A13 (Cos'è un suono bello)

An excerpt of Madison Greenstone and Bryan Jacobs playing two hybrid human/mechanically controlled clarinets.

Clarient Duo (excerpt 1)

a short test with the fantastic LW 258VCO (coupled with serge waveshaper). this connection and the joint feedback path makes these two osc extremely versatile. lots of harmonic overtones and even undertones possible depending on what mixture of wave is going through the tws.
also a test how to use the addac stochastic function generator in a tamed setting, every envelope is slightly different, the sequence gets "humanized".

stochreich

Opening tracks from my debut album 'Waking, She Heard The Fluttering', released April 5 2019 on Room40 https://alexandraspence.bandcamp.com/album/waking-she-heard-the-fluttering

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"Her sense of field is broader. it is as if she is trying to capture a whole landscape of sound entire... Sound is sound. It is sometimes exciting, often enigmatic, rarely open to verbalisation. ...we ought to spend more time with Alexandra Spence, with our ears simply and honestly open."
- Brian Morton, The Wire

"Throughout, there’s a real flow to the otherwise disparate sounds, sending any objective significance (such as traffic, a news reader or church bells) into purely subjective, introspective realms. It is topped off perfectly by the closing piece, ‘Sky And Sea Were Indistinguishable’, whose cautious tones are left free to roam beyond ‘the field’. They arc beautifully across the listening space and ultimately fade so slowly that their end is indistinguishable, sealing the communion between artist and listener."
- The Quietus

Waking, She Heard The Fluttering

Begin / Bodies In Place

Sadly due to a computer error it was not possible to finish production on this track. This is the last mixdown I managed to do before the error.

Incomplete

https://ikunixx.bandcamp.com/track/undecided

Bonus track
Free download

Dougga

Undecided

Ikuko Morozumi / "Dougga" 09-Undecided

An improvisation made in my studio in April 2020 on the modular synth. It is largely based on ethnographic cylinder recordings from the Kodaly archive, made in April 1914. These small fragments are sampled with oscillators controlling the grain, loop size and time points of the samples. Pitch and envelope followers on the samples in turn control these oscillators and other physically modelled sounds. Yannis Kyriakides, Amsterdam, April 2020.

A Ghost Of Spring

One Hundred Years for voices, orchestra and electronics (2020)by 
Yannis Kyriakides

Commissioned by Gaudeamus to celebrate its 75th anniversary 
Premiere 19th September 2020 by the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra & Silbersee conducted by
Karina Canellakis, NTR ZaterdagMatinee, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. Live broadcast and recording by NPO radio 4.

One Hundred Years (premiere)

video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdI9RUpQM_0

harp synth vox by elise
guitar by eddie chapman
animation and art by anthony clementi

Moon From a Well

"El mensaje está claro, el objetivo es reinvidicar... Las enseñanzas del pasado y las visibilidades del presente se manifiestan a través de la expresión verbal, corporar; de esa manera trascender y concebir la tan anhelada y exhaustiva emancipación femenina"

Dedicado a Ding Ling, Diana Mines y para todxs.

Dirección de Arte: Vermillion
Obra incrustada: Diana Mines (Autorretrato con trenza de niña, 1988.)

Clarient Duo (excerpt 1)

BryanJacobs