Cluster #37 w/ Alessandro Bosetti

  • Neue Musik / Komponierte Musik
  • Elektronische / Elektroakustische Musik
  • Performance

Plane Talea

Sat, 14.12.2024, 20:00 - 22:00 | KM28

Alessandro Bosetti
© Alessandro Bosetti

Plane Talea is an archive of anonymous voices that composer Alessandro Bosetti has been collecting for several years. The archive preserves tens of thousands of audio files, short vocal emissions – utterances – all or almost all of them barely shorter than a word endowed with meaning, stored in folders that specify their characteristics but omit all biographical details about the person who originally produced them. Each time Alessandro Bosetti performs the archive he finds himself going through it in new directions, recomposing the vocal fragments without ever altering their sound nature.
Plane/Talea performances take place through a multi-channel sound system in which the audience is immersed, with chairs distributed chaotically in the space. Each sound performance is preceded by a few days of recordings during which, through a call for participation, anyone is invited to give fragments of their voice during individual recording sessions.

In the time following the individual recordings, the memory of the encounter with the voice donors slowly fades away as the composer comes to know new vocal creatures, endowed with personalities of their own and capable of leading an autonomous existence.

Each Plane/Talea performance is a walk through a vocal landscape, a community of sound beings or if you will, an imaginary and impossible and nevertheless extremely real choir. All sounds in this landscape are exclusively vocal. The archive of voices now contains approximately seventy voices and continues to expand.

The cycle of compositions collected under the title “Plane/Talea” reflect an interest in vocal polyphonic music. They envision an “impossible choir” constructed through the sampling of thousands of fragments and pieces of voices, my own and those of others, and their recomposition into polyphonic garlands and textures.
This cycle can be intended as the utopic sonification of an impossible community in which the voice is atomized into primary particles and later reconstituted into sonic masses and clouds. These are too dense and complex for a chorus of real human beings to sing.The music of “Plane/Talea” is the sonic projection of such a community. The voice is not processed or altered in any way but subjected to molecular reorganization. Theoretically, a hyper-chorus could sing material of this type but, perhaps fortunately, such a choir does not yet exist.


Alessandro Bosetti
Composer and sound artist with a particular interest in the musicality of language and in the voice, conceived as an autonomous object and an instrument of expression. His works enacts a dialogue between language, voice and sound within complex tonal and formal constructions, often crossed by oblique irony. He builds surprising devices, often linked to the radio medium and to a tireless reflection on the relationships between music and language, questioning aesthetic categories and listening postures.
His recent works, such as « Plane Talea » (2015 – voice archive, in progress), « Regular Measures » (2017) and « Je ne suis pas pour parler » (2019), the choral performances « Acqua Sfocata, Utilità del Fuoco ed Altre Risposte Concentriche » ( 2014 – in progress ) as well as the ensemble piece « Didone » (2019), reflect on the recomposition of a community through a multiplicity of voices.
The music-theatre piece « Journal de Bord » (2019) and the radio piece « Guryong » (2016) explore autobiography and portrait in sound; voice-portrait is also at the center of the next music-theater work « Portraits des Voix », the premiere of which is scheduled for 2020 at the Festival Les Musiques in Marseille.
Alessandro Bosetti has received commissions from prestigious festivals such as the Festival d’Automne à Paris, the Eclat festival in Stuttgart, the Musiques festival in Marseille, radio stations as WDR Cologne, Deutschlandradio Kultur, Radio France, France Musique, ensembles as Kammerensemble Neue Musik, Die Maulwerker, Neuevocalsolisten Stuttgart, Trio vocal Déclic, Eklekto Percussion and soloists like Gareth Davis and Vincent Lhermet.
He has been awarded several prizes and distinctions, notably for his work in radio art (Prix Palma Ars Acoustica 2015, Prix Phonurgia Nova 2013, Prix Hörspiel – La Muse en Circuit 2003, Hörspiel des Monats ARD 2015). In 2019, he was nominated for the Bernard Heidsieck Prize in Paris and his works have been repeatedly on the Prix Italia shortlist.
His work has been shown in reference venues such as the GRM / Présences Electronique festival in Paris, Roulette and The Stone in New York, Café OTO in London, the Liquid Architecture Festival in Melbourne and Sydney, the Serralves Museum in Porto and the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival.
The music of Alessandro Bosetti is the subject of publications (CD, LP) on labels such as Errant Bodies Press, Holidays Records, Rossbin, Sedimental, Unsounds, Monotype, which dedicated a retrospective set (4 CDs) to his work in 2016.

Cluster is a new-music series devoted to the investigation of sound and notation, which provides musicians and composers with an exchange area in Berlin, at the crossroad of compositional and performance practices.

Labor Neunzehn is an artist-run project engaged in a cross-disciplinary discourse on time-based-art that involves expanded cinema, modern music, publishing, and the critical reflection in media art, with a specific focus on the migration of these languages between the online and offline domains. As an independent curatorial platform and a non-profit initiative for the production of research projects, exhibitions, performances, workshops, we are committed to the presentation of collaborative outcomes and hybrid formats.

Program



    Alessandro Bosetti »Plane Talea«
  • Alessandro Bosetti | Electronics

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  • Sat, 14.12.2024, 20:00 - 22:00
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