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)

Robe rehearsal 181017

Léo Dupleix - synthesis, voice
Félicie Bazelaire - double bass
Stefan Thut - cello
Fredrik Rasten - e-bowed guitar, voice

Recorded live by Stefan Thut in Säulenhalle, Landhaus Solothurn on 28th of June 2020


score:

http://fredrikrasten.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Fuse-modulations.pdf

Fuse modulations - excerpt

"out of the vast void,

immerging resonances

receding again"

- Johnny Chang


A new piece by the Viola Torros, the ongoing research project by composer-performers Catherine Lamb and Johnny Chang, which seeks to realise and arrange the compositions of a pre-medieval composer, Viola Torros. A real pleasure to release this work following their stunning double CD on Another Timbre in late 2018.

Viola T. was an anonymous composer who worked outside of the religious and academic establishments of her time. In her own practice, she documented her works in a minimally effective way, just enough to communicate with her fellow collaborators but barely enough to preserve a legacy for later generations of enthusiasts of her music.

The concept of ‘research’ referred to by the Viola Torros Project involves studies of various relevant musical styles of the pre-medieval period (arabic, byzantine and indian modes), and investigating possible evolution of melodic and harmonic developments as V. T. might have discovered. Choosing one aspect of such a musical style to focus upon, details are discovered and presented in an arrangement for two violas, often with additional augmentations.


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Johnny Chang & Catherine Lamb - violas & arrangement

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Originally recorded by Bryan Eubanks, Düsseldorf 2017

Edited in 2020 by Johnny Chang

Artwork design by Oliver Barrett

Viola Torros

TR036 - Viola Torros Project - Johnny Chang & Catherine Lamb - Prelimainary Study for V.T. [sample]

Excerpt from the B-side of the 'Albatross' cassette, to be released in September.

Albatross

Grant Evans - India Ink Mirror (excerpt)

Mémo

"Listening is and always has been at the core of The Quiet Club’s (Danny McCarthy & Mick O’Shea) work combined with their policy of not discussing the work before or after its performance this has been the hallmark of their practice. 

Unable to listen to each other perform during the Covid 19 Lockdown the duo resorted to Telepathic Listening. Uninterested in Zoom, Facetime etc. the duo decided to each perform in their own separate studio’s miles apart at a given time on appointed days for twenty minutes. The concept was that then the two recordings would be combined together unedited.

On June 16th 2020 (Bloomsday) the artists inspired by Joyce, performed separately but at the same time and the recordings were then combined together unedited to form Telepathic Lockdown Tape No 7.

There are several other works in the series including one which they both played at 4:33pm as a tribute to John Cage. Telepathic Lockdown Tape No 9."

The Telepathic Lockdown Tapes

TR079 - The Quiet Club - The Telepathic Lockdown Tapes [excerpt]

GOVERNO DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO
SECRETARIA ESTADUAL DE CULTURA E ECONOMIA CRIATIVA
FUNDO ESTADUAL DE CULTURA apresentam:

Circuitos Sônicos
por Artur Seidel (@artur-seidel) e Bernardo Girauta (@girauta)

Nessa pequena websérie, em formato podcast, investigamos um pouco da cena contemporânea do experimentalismo nas artes do som e da música. A partir de diálogos com integrantes de alguns selos do Rio de Janeiro, procuramos documentar essa cena, conhecer algo desse universo e seus circuitos, além de adentrar um pouco da densidade conceitual e estética apresentada pelos selos.
A cada episódio, visitamos um selo, retratado por uma conversa e uma mixtape produzidas por nós.
Nesse primeiro episódio, com muita alegria, recebemos Gabriela Nobre, do selo Música Insólita, que surgiu em 2018 e é formado atualmente pela própria Gabriela e por Filipi Pompeu.

Links para conhecer o trabalho do Música Insólita:
http://musicainsolita.bandcamp.com/
http://musicainsolita.com/
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6dKYdzAA8F0dSje9eKYSHw

Lista de faixas da mixtape:
Agla Aëón - Indigo Burn [It's A Decopunk Retrofuturistic Untime Machine, 03/2020]
cisma - lv3 [linha vermelha, 05/2019]
k0k0n - acima de nada (deus sou eu) [#braziliansadness - manifesto I, 05/2020]
Flavia Goa - Kim Jong Un - Trump ____ frames attack [Conto Cibernético, 04/2019]
Orlando Scarpa Neto - Av. Almirante Barroso, esquina com A. Rio Branco [Centro, 06/2020]
Paulo Dantas - 02022020 [02022020, 08/2020]
Caeso - Aum [Aum, 10/2019]
Antonio Brito - I [Sem Título (1), 01/2019]
Taticocteau - Sonoite [Caminhando com minhas próprias pernas, 06/2019]
Vulgar Débil - Autofertilização [Obra II, 01/2020]
Verjault - III - Cortejo [s/t, 04/2020]
Pompeii Burning - Manto Tupinambá Exposto em Copenhague [Ibirapema, 04/2019]

#EditalCulturaPresenteNasRedes #CulturaPresenteNasRedes #CulturaPresente #SececRj #GovRj #QuarentenaCultural

#1 - Música Insólita (com Gabriela Nobre)

From the latest self-release Starfish & the sonic tonalities
https://manjaristic.bandcamp.com/album/starfish-the-sonic-tonalities
The Absence started from listening to an old recording of the Wind Quintet by Serbian composer Ljubica Marić. After learning the composition well, I simply fell in love with the noise hidden in-between sounds produced by an old vinyl crackling and web compression. I made myself a little drone and soon realized the psycho-acoustic qualities of it. The narrative is wrapped around the noise pollution, from both below and above the Adriatic sea.

The Absence

Labs

La potencia de una política revolucionaria reside en la capacidad de imaginar dentro de un mismo marco de acción donde  la potencia individual y su realización -en palabras del propio Spinoza-, son una   “expresión de potencia colectiva, punto de fuerza (conatus) de un campo en el que convergen, potenciándose recíprocamente, los componentes elementales de una multitud que actúa como mens una”
En esta sesión haremos una introducción a la idea de imaginación, ética potencia y democracia en términos radicales que manejó Spinoza. En contra del individualismo, el reconocimiento singularista y los proyectos curriculares unipersonales que llenan nuestro imaginario contemporáneo y político, pensaremos en una política material del común.

Mémo

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