Department of Music

• Friday, February 12, 2010
• 107 Old Cabell Hall
• 3:30pm

• Friday, February 12, 2010
• The Bridge - PA1
• 8:00pm

Alessandro Bosetti will give a talk on his work with speech and electronic sound.

Alessandro Bosetti was born in Milan, Italy in 1973. He is a composer and sound artist working on the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication, producing text-sound compositions featured in live performances, radio broadcastings and published recordings. In his work he moves across the line between sound anthropology and composition, often including translation and misunderstanding in the creative process. Field research and interviews build the basis for abstract compositions, along with electro-acoustic and acoustic collages, relational strategies, trained and untrained instrumental practices, vocal explorations and digital manipulations. Recent projects include African Feedback (Errant Bodies press), the interactive speaking machine "MaskMirror" (STEIM, Kunstradio.at a.o. ) and an ongoing project on linguistic enclaves in the USA. Alessandro Bosetti  lives between Berlin (Germany) and Baltimore (USA).

Alessandro Bosetti will perform his solo works for speech and interactive electronics.