Labor Neunzehn is pleased to invite you to the second concert of this year’s Cluster Series. In addition to the exhibition and workshop that will take place at our space, we are pleased to consolidate our collaboration with KM28 by combining three concerts and three experimental film screenings between October 12th and Februar 15, 2025.
Saturday, December 14th, 2024
Cluster #37 w/ Alessandro Bosetti – Plane Talea
The archive will be enriched with the recordings taken by the composer at Labor Neunzehn during the sessions on Dec. 12-13
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20:00 DOORS 20:30 EVENT STARTS
Location: KM28 (www.km28.de)
Karl-Marx Straße, 28
12043, Berlin, Neukölln
INM-FIELD NOTES: https://www.field-notes.berlin/kalender/cluster-37-w-alessandro-bosetti-plane-talea
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PROGRAM:
Cluster #37 w/ Alessandro Bosetti – Plane Talea.
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.
BIO
Alessandro Bosetti
Composer and sound artist with a specific interest in the musicality of spoken language, voice — understood as an autonomous sound being — as well as in the relationship between sound and memory. He builds surprising dispositifs, often related to the radiophonic medium and leads a tireless questioning of aesthetic categories and of listening postures.
His recent works include the voice archive Plane Talea (in progress), the radio performances Je ne suis pas là pour parler (2019) et Consensus Partium (2020), the cycle of compositions Pièces à pédales (2021) and the musical theater pièces Journal de Bord and Portraits des Voix with Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart ( 2018 and 2021).
Alessandro Bosetti’s music is regularly programmed in festivals such as Festival d’Automne in Paris, Festival Eclat in Stuttgart, GRM’s Présences Electroniques festival in Paris, Liquid Architecture festival in Melbourne, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Musica festival in Strasbourg and Ruido Festival in Buenos Aires.
Numerous record releases on labels such as Errant Bodies Press, Holidays Records, Rossbin, Sedimental, Unsounds and Monotype, which dedicated a retrospective box set (4 CDs) to his work in 2016. His book Thèses/Voix — a collection of texts between theory, poetry and score — was published in 2021 by Les presses du réel.
The vinyl «FasFari» – the most recent installment of the Plane Talea series- and the CD Portraits des Voix are just out on Xong and Kohlhaas records.
Alessandro Bosetti lives and works in Marseille, France.
www.melgun.net
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.
This Cluster Concert is generously supported by inm Berlin e.V
pics
1. Alessandro Bosetti © Andrea Graziosi
2. Plane / Talea 2022 © Michela di Savino
3. Alessandro Bosetti © Gianluca Pisicchio
