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Alessandro Bosetti - Life Expectation (Excerpt)

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From WER-001 Alessandro Bosetti "Stand Up Comedy"

http://weirdearrecords.bandcamp.com/album/stand-up-comedy


On these recordings, Allesandro Bosetti utilizes an instrument of his own design (Mask/Mirror) to skew any intent to specific meaning asunder, as the mask/mirror has been engineered to chaotically interrupt and reconfigure speech in realtime, creating odd juxtapositions, abrupt interruptions, and a wholly arresting listening experience. As Mask/Mirror spits out phrases, isolated words, vocal tics, plosives, and the occasional guffaw, it convolves the starkness of that material in real time with bells, sine waves, percussive elements and other instrumental sound, effectively creating a tonal shadow that further blurs the divide between sound, speech, music and language.


Side B of Stand Up Comedy is a composition for voice/electronics, Violin, and Contrabass Clarinet. We hear a conversation between two anonymous speakers, transcribed and rerecorded in Bosetti's voice, played back through Mask/Mirror, recombinant and exploded in it's exploration of it's initial themes. The instrumental parts have been transcribed to shadow the utterances and meanderings of the Mask/Mirrors winding lines, as Bosetti struggles to keep the sometimes darkly comedic themes in check, and simultaneously copes with the danger of letting his instrument speak freely in front of a live audience

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from Weird Ear Sampler, released February 14, 2014
released 10 December 2012
Stand Up comedy 1 : Alessandro Bosetti - voice/mask mirror

Recorded in Philadelphia (masher dance space), Vienna (Kunstradio), Jersey City (WMFU) and St. Louis (Lemp Arts), 2008.

Stand Up comedy 2 : Alessandro Bosetti - voice/electronics.
Johnny Chang - violin
Chris Heenan - contrabass clarinet

Recorded in Berlin (Hechtzeitmusk Tage), 2009.

Thanks to Kurt Gottschalk, Liza Clark, Mark Sarich, Elisabeth Zimmermann, Byron Westbrook, Fernanda Farah, Chris Heenan, Ignatz Schick.

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