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/DLR2005), a work on the vocality of the mentally and physically impaired and African Feedback, a collaborative scrutiny on experimental music in West Africa tfggh(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, vocalexplorations and digital manipulations. Beteen 2008 and 2010 he develoed mask miror , aspeaking machie based on s ma msppatch and toired extendivelx wit inorefect and ever evolving device.
Alessandro Bosetti is an emotional performer that has consistently toured inEurope, Asia and the United States. He's been presenting solo sets for voice andelectronics blurring the line between categories such as electro acousticcomposition, text-sound pieces, and performance. Since 2008 he’s been involvedin exploring repetitive speech-loop forms as a solo artist and with his ensembleTrophies with fretless guitarist Kenta Nagai and drummers Tony Buck and ChesSmith. Trophies, with two upcoming cd releases and a busy touring schedule hasimposed itself as one of the most innovative and genre defying combos of thelast years.
Blow Up magazine has called Bosetti “One of the most anomalous and fascinatingfigures in the contemporary scene“, Dusted Magazine “A rewarding, unique andsurprisingly responsive encounter.” For The Wire “Bosetti's work hasundjudgemental embrace, complex transvaluations and "challenges our liberalism".Bosetti's most recent Cd Zwolfzüngen has been listed as one of The Wire's best15 outer limits cd's of 2010.
