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Alessandro Bosetti's Music of Language
ByAlessandro Bosetti
composer / conductorTony Buck
percussion
FasFari
2024
Some technologists collect bird songs and others chase meteorite fragments or attempt to decode the double helix DNA structures of long-extinct dinosaurs. Bosetti collects and stockpiles diverse human voices to create his "impossible choir." Sometimes his samples are entire sentences, other times just words or vocal fragments. He uses these samples on FasFari to orchestrate the experience an extraterrestrial life form might experience when encountering the human voice. An earth-born listener will recognize her fellow human's voice, but when it is decontextualized by Bosetti, numerous possibilities are present. "Fās" opens side one of the LP with a flood of voices. Sounds much like insects swarming the ear. Bosetti's samples are utterances made before the actual act of speaking. They can sound like the honking barks of geese "Fari" or sounds similar to bees "Afasia" emanating from a constantly swarming hive. Yes, these are human voices, but within the compositions, structures, and projections of Bosetti, they become unearthly. Well, that is from the perspective of alien ears. Listeners can identify patterns throughout. "Fasti" reminds one of

Philip Glass
composer / conductorb.1937

Portraits de Voix
Kohlhaas
2024
Sound artist and composer

Alessandro Bosetti
composer / conductorPer Bosetti's modus operandi here consists of voices collected over a summer from three generations of males and females in Italy. He also recorded German, English, and French voices in Stuttgart, Berlin, and other random voices in various locations. He then chops, cuts, and recontextualizes the samples to create his collage of sound, this time also employing Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, a quintet of classical vocalists. All samples and real-time voices are used to present his production as musical theatre.
The presentation may remind you of Ghost Trance Music which

Anthony Braxton
woodwindsb.1945
Tracks and Personnel
FasFariTracks: Fās; Fari; Flatus; Facies; Fatus; Afasia; Fate; Fasti; Futon; Arruffato; Facile.
Personnel: Alessandro Bosetti: composer.
Portraits de Voix
Tracks: Portraitist I; Portrait I; Portraitist II; Portrait II; Portraitist III; Portrait III (A Milano); Portraitist IV; Portrait IV; Portraitist V; Portrait V; Portrait VI; Portrait VII; Portrait VIII (Ulta si); Portraitist VI; Portrait IX; Portrait X (Porsche); Portraitist VII; Portrait XI (Vita Morte); Portrait (Tema Base); Portrait XIIX.
Personnel: Johanna Vargas: soprano; Truike van der Poel: mezzo soprano; Martin Nagy: tenor; Guillermo Anzorena: baritone; Andreas Fischer: bass; Alessandro Bosetti: portraitist.
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