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to concert schedule Saturday, October 18 @ Mascher Space Co-Op: Alessandro Bosetti, Corridors (Byron Westbrook), and "Meet" dance piece Mascher Space Co-op, 155 Cecil B. Moore Avenue 2B Philadelphia, PA 19122 (map) (directions), $5-10, 9pm. Sponsored by Bowerbird. Two acts who present "not quite music." Bosetti, from a background in improvisation, has in recent years focused on the voice, speech, text, and vocal abstraction, refracting language through abstract sound and blurring the line between both. Situating the voice amidst samples, musical instruments, computer noise, and processing, Bosetti bends the tenuous line between representation and abstraction, speech and sound. Corridors is Byron Westbrook, who augments his live drone pieces with multi-screen projections that probe the relations among the senses while they create an immersive environment of both sound and light. Rich drones shimmer as abstract patterns flicker. Sink in. Alessandro Bosetti (jump to bio)  "Bosetti is as demanding of the listener as he is of himself, but a dedication to the experience and a willingness to be aware of one’s own listening can make [the disc] a rewarding, unique and surprisingly responsive encounter." - Adam Strohm, Dusted Magazine Alessandro Bosetti - "Expose 11" excerpt Alessandro Bosetti - "Komiker" http://www.melgun.net http://www.myspace.com/alessandrobosetti Corridors (Byron Westbrook) (jump to bio)  "To call Byron Westbrook a composer of breathtakingly beautiful ambient pieces and drone works is reasonably accurate but painfully reductive; Westbrook, whose work under the name Corridors has involved acoustic instruments, field recordings, spatialized playback and lighting, is the kind of artist for whom the old, mostly disused term intermedia was coined." -TimeOut New York Corridors - "viola/organ/electronics" excerpt Corridors - "bminor guitar" excerpt http://www.byronwestbrook.com/ http://www.myspace.com/corridors Bios: alessandro bosetti Was born in Milan, Italy in 1973. Composer and sound artist. He works on the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication and produced text-sound compositions featured in live performances, radio broadcastings and published recordings. In his work he moves on the line between sound anthropology and composition often including translation and misunderstanding in the creative process. Field research and interviews often build the basis for his abstract compositions along with electro-acoustic and acoustic collages, relational strategies,trained and untrained instrumental practices, vocal explorations and digital manipulations. Since he's curious about differences he travels. Just in 2006 he's been living and working in West Africa, China, Taiwan, Holland, Scandinavia, United States , Germany and Italy. For the future he plans to be living and working between Berlin (D), Milano (I) and Baltimore (USA) ***** Byron Westbrook (b. 1977) is a sound/intermedia artist living in Brooklyn, NY. His audio/video performances as CORRIDORS involve the distribution of processed instrumental and environmental recordings through a multi-channel environment with a focus on energy distilled from sound and light. He has shared bills with Sawako, Tony Conrad, Stefan Tcherepnin, Lichens, James Blackshaw, Anette Krebs, Soft Circle, and Mountains, among many others. He has presented at venues such as Tonic, Roulette, ParisLondonWestNile, Issue Project Room, Experimental Intermedia, Exit Art Gallery. Westbrook has also collaborated with Paris-based composer and former Kitchen curator Rhys Chatham in the drone metal group Essentialist (Table of the Elements), as well as performed in the ensembles of Phill Niblock, Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca and Jonathan Kane. In 2007, he was the recipient of the Jerome Foundation Emerging Artists Commission through Roulette Intermedium and is currently the technical coordinator at Experimental Intermedia Foundation, NYC. Releases are forthcoming for both Corridors and Essentialist, along with a fall tour of the US with Alessandro Bosetti. CORRIDORS is a multi-channel audio/video environment that uses video projections, amplifiers and speakers strategically placed within a performance space. It was originally developed as a distribution system for improvised guitar feedback and has evolved over the last three years into composed works using varied sound sources through the system, which is also customized for the individual works. The project emphasizes how redistributed energy of sound and light in space to alter perception. Audio elements consist of either guitar feedback processed live, pre-recorded instrumental performances and/or found sounds. These recordings are pre-processed to reduce the sounds to the pure energy of the source material (as opposed to referencing the source). They are then redistributed live through the performance space via the multi-channel system with additional processing to cater to the composition and space. Following the audio concept, the video elements are sources of light processed to reduce identification of form, object and location, thus highlighting the essential energy and its movement. |