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)

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For 4 computer-controlled pianos and 4 speakers.

Premiered Feb 13th, 2014 as part of Qubit's Machine Music Concert.

In sin fin bin din bin fin sin in

one of my latest ones - accordion & electronics, all sounds are more or less processed accordion samples of my live recorded accordion

rise / sink

Crystal

This is an audio mix of the 4 elements from my sound installation/sculpture "Il tempo insassato che pur scorre" from 2020.

Background sound is played through the floor monitors, stereo, and they are placed on your left and right as you enter the room. This sound fills up the space like the light and opens it up beyond the walls of the gallery space, implying a reverberant, large, empty room/hall. The sound is composed by layering the multitude of oscillators coming from the EMS Synthi 100, covering each part of the spectra. 
The sound played through the speakers in front (which are covered by the cloth), are scattered sonic artefacts in low and mid registers, that should appear to be almost tangible and "real", as if something is moving beneath the cloth.
Devices hanging on the left and right wall are winding and unwinding the tape. They are sonified from within the box by the ready-made loops that consist of material produced by sampling the working procedures of the reel-to-reel tape recorder.

Durations of the tracks in the installation, differ from the ones in this mix which is made as an audio preview.

Installation was premiered at the gallery Weisser Elephant on January 2020 in Berlin, alongside the works by Alva Noto,  Robert Lippok, Katharina Bevand, Cecile Dupaquier, Anne Gathmann, Harriet Gross and Elliane Radiue, to whom this event was dedicated, celebrating her work in electro-acoustic music and her birthday.

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Il tempo insassato che pur scorre (sound part)

Each Morning of the World #04
South American Phonographic Mornings #03/20
Puerto Saavedra ~ South Chili
Lafken Kürüf  de Julie Rousse

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The piece - Lafken Kürüf - has been composed from recordings taken in the south of Chile in 2015. Mixing various sounds of the wind and the ocean, as well as glimpses of voices, those emblematic sounds from my stay there are composed in a short piece transcribing the powerful sonic landscape that has accompany me during the three months spent in the Mapuche Lafkenche community of Traïtraïko Leufu. The noise of the wind on the rooftop of my house and the rumble from the Pacific Ocean close by kept me from sleeping at night as i would imagine it coming out from its bed, like in the Mapuche Lafkenche mythology.

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de l’album South American PhoNographic Mornings
ce titre est sorti le 6 mai 2018
Credit photo : © Julie Rousse 2018

Lafken Kürüf

LAFKEN KÜRÜF

Outplant is a new podcast from the Data.Wave webzine that features releases sent to our magazine by artists from various places of the world.

The episode 2 contains work of German sound artist Thomas Köner, electronic project Växtfolket, Michel van Collenburg aka nobuka, a track from the fresh release of A Strangely Isolated Place label and an unreleased composition by the New-York based musician Andrés León.

For musicians and labels: send your tracks to our email: datawv.office [at] gmail [dot] com

Tracklist: 

01. Thomas Köner - Substance (Suicide) (Mille Plateaux, 2020)
02. Växtfolket - III (Auditive Abstraction, 2020)
03. nobuka - Bluebird (Self-released, 2020)
04. Wanderwelle - Decay (A Strangely Isolated Place, 2020)
05. Andrés León - Variations (Unreleased, 2020)

Outplant #02

Solo upright bass
Harmonica
Synthesizers and Fx.

Image: Friendship by Agnes Martin.

For this challenge:
Disquiet Junto Project 0456: Line Up
The Assignment: Interpret a painting by Agnes Martin as if it were a graphic score.

Step 1: Look at the work of painter Agnes Martin, best known for her parallel lines.

Step 2: Select an individual work that suggests itself to you as a musical score.

My imagination is not flamboyant today, I just went for some linear playing, both an upright bass linear impro and an harmonica and synth simple straight drone.

DD 25th Sep 2020

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