ALESSANDRO BOSETTI + MARCO FUSINATO
LONDON: Cafe Oto
WED 18TH APR, 2012 8PM
£7.00
Double bill with two artists working on the edge of music with Alessandro Bosetti's hypnotic explorations of repetitive speech loops and Marco Fusinato's unconventional use and mis-use of the electric guitar and related electronic devices.
This event is a co-presentation with PENULTIMATE PRESS.
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ALESSANDRO BOSETTI
Voice, mouth, sense, center, story, memory, song, noise, body. Utterances and loops of language morphing into each other and into mutable, knotty, sound matter. The story is told but always elusive. The voice is high pitched, broken, untrained, fearless. The sense is right in the center of the phrase, so much in your face that you stop noticing it. The memory is shattered, solarized, partly erased, partly distorted. The noise is in the body. Somewhere, somebody sings. The instrument is made of wood, rubber, bee-wax. The computer is on the side. The software has been fallaciously programmed. A microphone is needed.
Alessandro Bosetti (b. 1973) is a sound artist, composer and performer currently based in Berlin. He's main focus is in the fringe area between spoken language and music. He created a series of highly compelling sound works where relational aesthetics meets innovative composition. Since 2000 he has been a key Ars Acustica figure, and created a vast body of work of hybrid, award winning, text-sound and radio compositions for the main Radio and Electro Acoustic Music studios in Europe. Among them, pieces like Il Fiore della Bocca (Rossbin/DLR 2005), a work on the vocality of the mentally and physically impaired and African Feedback, a collaborative scrutiny on experimental music in West Africa (Errant Bodies press, 2004). Field research and interviews often build the basis for his abstract compositions along with electro-acoustic and acoustic collages, relational strategies, trained and untrained instrumental practices, vocal explorations and digital manipulations.
Alessandro Bosetti is an emotional performer that has consistently toured in Europe, Asia and the United States. He's been presenting solo sets for voice and electronics blurring the line between categories such as electro acoustic composition, text-sound pieces, and performance.
Since 2008 he's been involved in exploring repetitive speech-loop forms as a solo artist and with his ensemble Trophies with fretless guitarist Kenta Nagai and drummers Tony Buck and Ches Smith. Trophies, with two upcoming cd releases and a busy touring schedule has imposed itself as one of the most innovative and genre defying combos of the last years.
Blow Up magazine has called Bosetti "One of the most anomalous and fascinating figures in the contemporary scene", Dusted Magazine "A rewarding, unique and surprisingly responsive encounter." For The Wire "Bosetti's work has unjudgemental embrace, complex transvaluations and "challenges our liberalism".
Bosetti's most recent Cd Zwolfzüngen has been listed as one of The Wire's best 15 outer limits cd's of 2010.
MARCO FUSINATO
Marco Fusinato (guitar/electronics) ‘…extends the traditional language of the guitar to distressed oblivion, compounding deracinated electronic detritus into over-amplified dreamweapons, unleashing tsunamis of ecstatic free noise’
Marco Fusinato works across various disciplines. As a visual artist he has gained much notoriety. In 2012 Fusinato’s work will be included in The Imminence of Poetics, 30th Sao Paulo Biennale; the 2012 Glasgow International and Parallel Collisions, the 2012 Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art. Fusinato has been awarded an ISCP New York residency for 2012-13.
Fusinato's primary focus within the sonic realm is on the unconventional use and mis-use of the electric guitar and related electronic devices.
His recent solo recordings include Ambianxe, 2010 (Spring Press, New York) and Ripping Skies 2009 (No Fun Productions, New York). Fusinato has collaborated with many fellow noise thinkers from Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth to Bruce Russell of the Dead C. Presented as part of the 2008 Melbourne International Arts Festival, Fusinato and Oren Ambarchi co-curated the major international exhibition 21:100:100 which featured a hundred sound works by a hundred artists from the 21st Century. He also curated the series YOU DON’T HAVETO CALL IT MUSIC: music by visual artists and the noise festival HATRED OF FANTASTIC. His forthcoming solo LP Origine/Tema will be released this year by Penultimate Press, London
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