Alessandro Bosetti, FasFari, 2024

FasFari is composed of short vocal emissions that deal with a form of speech before the act of saying, sound particles that invoke meaning without ever fully unfolding it, and barely suggest a body and a biographical identity. FasFari is the 36th incarnation of Plane Talea, an archive/instrument that Alessandro Bosetti has been building since 2016, made up of anonymous voices – to date more than 80 – sorted into thousands of utterances. EachPlane Talea performance is preceded by individual recording encounters in which volunteers donate their voice and accept that it can live autonomously, becoming a living, fictitious and real object. The collected utterances are ordered in an idiosyncratic taxonomy that arranges them in organum and constitute an instrument, then played to create a purely utopian vocal music, a polyphony that builds teeming textures starting from the multiplication of the details and imperfections of which the voices are carriers.

Alessandro Bosetti, born in Milan and living in Marseille, is a 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 among language, voice, and sound within complex tonal and formal constructions, often crossed by oblique irony. Bosetti creates surprising pieces and devices questioning aesthetic categories and listening postures. He has received commissions from 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 received numerous recognitions and awards, especially for his radio art work (Prix Palma Ars Acustica, Prix Phonurgia Nova, Hörspiel des Monats ARD, Prix Italia), and presented his work in reference venues and contexts including GRM/Presences Electroniques Festival in Paris, Roulette and The Stone in New York, Cafe OTO in London, Liquid Architecture Festival in Melbourne and Sydney, Museo Serralves in Porto, and the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival. He has recorded (CDs and LPs) for labels such as Errant Bodies Press, Holidays Records, Rossbin, Sedimental, Unsounds, Kohlhaas, Xing, and Monotype, which released a 4-CD retrospective box set of his works in 2016. He published the book Thèses/Voix (Les presses du réel, 2021), a collection of texts between theory, poetry and score.

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