Self-taught electroacoustic musician active in the field of live improvisation on analog devices and reel to reel tape recorders, exploring the possibilities of the magnetic tape and the aural display of residual and altered fixed sounds.

ZimmerFrei is a collective of artists (Massimo Carozzi, Anna de Manincor, Anna Rispoli) whose complex practice is located on the crossways of cinema, theater, music and performance. Mixing formal languages, the group produces kaleidoscopic sonic and visual works that investigate real and imaginary urban environments, where the mental and the physical blend in a coherent narrative of human experience.

a small place for contemporary music
2011: 
27.11 Asmus Tietchens + Dj Zipo, 
04.10: Renato Rinaldi 
09.07: Lunga notte in ascolto: con Luigi Lombardi Vallauri, Luciano Maggiore, Francesco “Fuzz” Brasini, Dominique Vaccaro, Massimo Carozzi, Giuseppe Ielasi, Stefano Pilia, Olivier Di Placido, Seiji Morimoto, Salvatore Arangio 
03.05: Mario De Vega  
14.04: Jerome Noetinger / SEC  
15.03: Robin Hayward & Enrico Malatesta  
23.02: Luciano Maggiore & Francesco “Fuzz” Brasini  
10.01: Lorenzo Senni  
2010: 
14.12: Aspec(t)  
09.11: Attila Faravelli & Nicola Ratti  
31.05: Greg Haines  
22.05: Aki Onda  
23.04: Christian Wolfarth & Enrico Malatesta  
12.03: Andrea Belfi & Attila Faravelli  
18.02: Robert Piotrowicz  
29.01: Giuseppe Ielasi & Nicola Ratti  
15.01: Francesco “Fuzz” Brasini  
2009: 
17.12: Olivier Di Placido  
11.11: Z’ev, Raum, in collaborazione con Xing   
23.09: Ben Reynolds / Nalle  
10.05: Seijiro Murayama & Jean-Luc Guionnet  
08.04: Head of Wantastiquet  
09.03: Francesco Cavaliere 
01.03: David Daniell  
14.02: John Duncan  
29.01: Andrew L. Hooker  
2008: 
19.11: Dean Roberts  
01.11: Toshimaru Nakamura 
23.10: Andrea Belfi   
23.09: Marcel Turkowsky   
26.06: Massimo Carozzi 
25.05: Seijiro Murayama & Renato Rinaldi  
15.05: Katsura Yamauchi  
08.04: Robin Hayward      
01.02: Claudio Rocchetti + Be invisible now!  
2007: 
12.12: Gilles Aubry + Valerio Tricoli  
28.11: Ootchio + Stefano Pilia 
22.10: Logoplasm + Punck  
13.09: Z’ev + Dominique Vaccaro


Francesco “Fuzz” Brasini, guitarist and sound researcher, has been working in the musical world since the end of the 80’s, exploring different musical genres and instruments. His desire to search for his own personal sound is at the base of his interest in sound experimentation. This desire has led him to delve deeper into the tecnical and maufacturing characteristics of musical instruments to the point of making by hand a series of prototypes of guitars, basses, valve-amplifiers and analog effects. His current research is based on the creation of compositional structures obtained from the sums of  tones and overtones produced by the strings of electric guitars and the feedback generated by amplification systems. Sevenguitars and Strings resonance, are his latest "solo" works, just taking its cue from this concept. Since 2007 he has been collaborating with ZAPRUDERfilmmakersgroup, research group on moving images, for the creation of films and installations’ soundtracks (Daimon, Pletora, Cock-Crow, Fault, All inclusive, Joule), as well as of musical projects (CRIPTOFONIA and S-WING). He has also collaborated with Luciano Maggiore, Pietro Riparbelli and Dario Neri experimenting the interaction between different instruments and approaches.His latest works have been released by Boring Machines and Radical Matters edition Labels.



SEVENGUITARS
Sevenguitars is a project born from the idea of interaction between sound and space. The protagonists of the project are seven guitars, apparently identical but technically studied to obtain distinctive features: the seven instruments have been designed and hand-built with tonal chambers inside the solid body that, interacting with the string’s harmonic vibrations, create different sonic effects. Every guitar is connected to a valve-amplifier every of whitch is equipped with distinctive speakers and different power. The amps are used at the maximum volume and tone bringing a feedback effect with the guitars: the strings go in auto-oscillation creating different harmonics, depending from the instrument and the tuning, and reacting with the acoustics features of the performative environment. The musician lose, therefore, the role of executor becoming only the creator of a process open to unpredictable results and closely related to the contest of performance. Every place, every contest, becomes an important variable able to influence the result: the sound is, therefore, linked to the temporal dimension, to whitch music is traditionally associated, as well as to the spatial dimension.


STRINGS RESONANCE
The strings of the musical instruments resonate with a fundamental frequency and creates overtones, multiples of the fundamental frequency. This project arise from the exploitation of these armonics. Following the principle of scientific "C" 256hz, that allow to increase the number of overtones, the sum of this frequencies creates a composition inside the single note.


Contact: francescofuzz@gmail.com 



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