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Undisturbed By Wind

‘The Forest’ is an immersive experience. I composed this track while observing the movement of the branches of trees, filmed by the artist Elena Crisanti. The violin, viola and cello are tuned to 432 Hz, merging with the sounds of nature.
Check the video on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWUaYkz6MFQ

The Forest | 432hz

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An urgency, an intimate explosion. The new single by Laura Masotto was inspired by the recent climatic situation giving voice to one of the most direct, essential truths: Our House is on Fire.

Our house burns, like our certainties. Her violin translates both the human sentiment in front of danger and the danger itself, the threat. From fragility to vehemence, from fear to resistance, from fight to oppression: all these feelings interwoven creating a DNA of our times. These sensations condense into an almost mystical vortex, built thanks to a crescendo pattern that intersects the strong solidity of the violin. Like a human being trapped in the vortex of a larger entity, of an unstoppable force.

The electronic sounds, which are direct effects of the distorted violin, surround the sonorities of the instrument, they merge, as an opposite output deriving from the same source. An overwhelming duality that touches the human being in his intimate essence.

The track evolves trough two opposing forces that seem to fight: the violin grows, explodes, as in a form of resistance, and it contrasts the electronic dissonances, arising from the instrument itself: it is a vertical ascent, which follows the delicate sense of balance that is formed between all things, in harmony. The track is in fact a unique track, a hypnosis, a fire: it stands out in the silence like a tremendous and romantic incipit, which opens to the experimental future of a violinist able to treat her instrument with courage and talent.

 

‘This track came as a sort of epiphany. I have been very inspired by the incredible strength of Greta Thunberg and the power of her resistance. I see in this young woman the realisation of a solid resistance, the blossoming of a new hope. But despite the deeply moving feelings this new movement’s triggered in me, I couldn’t separate the fact that this is happening because we are already living in dark, critical times. It is already happening. This created a sort of duality in my mind, in which both light and dark are fighting each other, in a sort of perpetual motion. I wanted it out, as a statement on its own.’ - Laura Masotto

Our House is on Fire

Born in 1985, at the age of five she began studying violin and graduated from the Conservatory of music of Verona. After her Jazz specialization, she began to experiment with a wide variety of contemporary musical styles.
In 2015 she collaborated with Lorenzo Masotto for the single 'Pierrot', released on Moderna Records.
In 2017 she recorded as first violin with the orchestra 'Come ti vedono gli altri', a tribute to Luigi Tenco with arrangements by Mauro Ottolini.
She recorded the soundtrack for the movie 'Gli Asteroidi' by Germano Maccioni, in selection at the Locarno Film Festival.
In 2018 she composed the original soundtrack of the video installation created by Duae Collective titled 'Pattern for a Relationship', which is part of the project “Besos” and exhibited at Fabra i Coats Contemporary Art Center in Barcelona. 
Her first solo album 'Fireflies' is a collection of compositions performed live with the use of a looper which allows her to accompany her melodies independently. The album is released on Lady Blunt Records and it was presented with Sofar Sounds in Los Angeles in January 2019.

Laura Masotto

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