Alessandro Bosetti

LOCATION SERIES, 2018

Continuous loop, 14' , audio.
1450 anonymous voices.
With text by Piersandra Di Matteo.

Over the course of 2017 and 2018, Alessandro Bosetti invited the people he met to say the word "here" just once in their mother tongue. The 1,450 responses obtained are edited in the exact order of the recordings, made along an itinerary passing through Marseille, Taipei, Porto, Bologna and Warsaw. The work thus offers an experience in which linguistic and geographical landscapes intersect in complex ways, revealing how each territory is constantly traversed, in multiple directions, by a multitude of living beings. "LOCATION SERIES unfolds as an acoustic exploration of space through vocal composition, where affective tones, manifestations of presence and intimate forms of mouth-to-mouth contact interweave linguistic and geographical landscapes through the prism of mobility (...) It resonates with latencies, instantaneous perceptions and desires inscribed in the memory of bodies and voices, interacting with the transformation of places and the dynamics of languages. It is a bodily and relational constellation, spatialized through different times and spaces, and recomposed in listening, here, at this precise moment."

(based on the accompanying text by Piersandra Di Matteo)

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Carnival 2, 2020

The piece is dedicated to pianist Reinier van Houdt, who will perform it.
La Centrale, Saturday September 13, 7pm

Alexandre Bosetti proposes here a radical rewriting of Carnaval, a piece composed by Robert Schumann between 1834 and 1835, each of whose 21 episodes was dedicated to a commedia dell'arte mask or a hidden portrait of the musician's friends and colleagues. His version preserves the structure but introduces new, enigmatic masks, interspersed with electro-acoustic paraventi, sound curtains that allow the pianist to adopt a new identity each time. Alexandre Bosetti wrote each part without knowing, at least initially, who was behind the mask, and anyone who listens may or may not identify a person of their own. Carnaval 2 is released on vinyl on three:four records to coincide with the concert at the Biennale Son.

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Alessandro Bosetti

Born in 1973
Based in Marseille

Composer and sound artist Alessandro Bosetti explores the musicality of language and the voice as an autonomous object, as well as the relationship between sound and memory. He designs singular devices, often linked to the radio medium, and develops a reflection that questions listening in its postures and aesthetic categories.

Recent works include the Plane/Talea archive of anonymous voices, the MaskMirror digital ventriloquism device, and research into sonic mnemonics through laboratory work and performances such as La memoria risiede nel lobo dell'orecchio.

His work embraces a variety of techniques - radio art, contemporary composition, vocal polyphony and conceptual gesture.

At the heart of his practice is always the encounter, in particular the conversation and the interview, seen as both generative and performative devices.

Sound and voice thus become both place and material for a possible ecology of encounter and memory.

Alessandro Bosetti's music has been programmed at festivals such as Festival d'Automne in Paris, Musica in Strasbourg, GRM's Présences Électroniques festival, Liquid Architecture in Melbourne and the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, and has been published by labels such as Three:Four Records, Errant Bodies Press, Les presses du réel, Holidays Records, Kohlhaas, Unsound and Monotype.