Alessandro Bosetti (Born in Italy, 1973) is a sound artist, composer and performer. He's main focus is in the fringe area between spoken language and music. He created a series of highly compelling works where relational aesthetics meet innovative composition. Field researches, interviews and conversations often build the basis for his abstract compositions. Among them are pieces like Il Fiore della Bocca (Rossbin/DLR 2005), a work on the vocality of the mentally and physically impaired and African Feedback, a collaborative scrutiny on experimental music in West Africa (Errant Bodies press, 2004). Since 2001 he has been engaged in many major radio art productions with several public and net radios in Europe and USA, and created a vast body of work of hybrid text-sound and radio compositions. He also received commissions to compose pieces for ensembles as KNM Berlin and Die Maulwerker.
Alessandro Bosetti is an emotional performer that has consistently toured in Europe, Asia and the United States. He's been presenting solo sets for voice and electronics blurring the line between electro acoustic composition, text-sound pieces, song and performance. Between 2007 and 2009 he created the speaking machine Mask Mirror with the support of STEIM in Amsterdam and Harvestworks digital centre in NYC and performed extensively with it. Since 2009, continuing his quest on the musicality of spoken language he’s been involved in exploring repetitive speech-loop forms as a solo artist and with his ensemble Trophies with drummer Tony Buck and guitarist Kenta Nagai.
Bosetti has published more than ten CD's under his own name on labels as Errant Bodies Press, Monotype, Rossbin and Sedimental and many others in different collaborations. Two Trophies CD's are awaited for the summer 2010 and a new radio composition on the overlooked Italian colonial past in Eritrea is currently being produced for DeutschlandRadio Kultur. Blow Up magazine has called Bosetti “One of the most anomalous and fascinating figures in the contemporary scene“, Dusted Magazine “A rewarding, unique and surprisingly responsive encounter.” For The Wire “Bosetti's work has undjudgemental embrace, complex transvaluations and challenges our liberalism" Bosetti's most recent Cd Zwolfzüngen has been listed as one of The Wire's best 15  outer limits cd's of 2010.  

performed at :

lampo/chicago, Carnegie hall, 2pi festival/hangzhou, thinking hands/beijing, musique action/nancy, festival musiques innovatrices/st. etienne, konzerthaus/berlin, konzerthaus/wien, uplink factory/tokyo, controindicazioni/rome, experimental intermedia/new york city, roulette/new york city, big apple/kobe, gendai heights/tokyo, SAIC/chicago, huddersfield new music festival, resonance.fm, kraakgeluiden/amsterdam, bimhuis/amsterdam, space and place festival/berlin, densitees festival/fresnes, instants chavires/paris, steim/amsterdam, hausmusik festival/berlin, GAM/bologna, festival muzzix/lille, trinity college/dublin, frakture festival/liverpool, atlantic waves/london, akusmatischer salon/berlin (co-curated), emballage festival/braunschweig, atelier grammophone/hannover, ausland/berlin, ziegeist gallery/boston, clusone jazz festival, fylkingen/stockholm, bla/oslo, the red room/baltimore, mopomoso/london, the klinker/london, europa jazz festival/noci, netwerk/aalst, thatre de mercellin/brussels, peniche opera/paris, extrapol/nymegen, sonoritès/nancy, sound art/cologne, biennale/bonn, villa delle rose/bologna, dangerous curve/los angeles, non event/boston, high zero festival/baltimore, festival beyond innocence/osaka, musée d'art modern et contemporain/strasbourg, zagreb biennale, rex/beograd, deep wireless, toronto, (selected performances)

lectures and workshops :

art institute of chicago, mills college, national taiwan normal university, the university of maryland, baltimore county, maryland institute college of art, national hsinchu university taipei, national jiao-tong university taipei, long island university, california institute of the arts, johns hopkins university, articule montreal, atelier creation sonore e radiophonique, brussels, art school le quai mulhouse.

scholarships and honors :

2010 Special Mention at URTI Grand Prix de la Radio for the radio piece "Children's America"
2010 Special Mention at Prix Bohemia for the radio piece "Children's America"
2009 Special Mention at the Phonurgia Nova international sound art competition for "Arcoparlante".
2009 Phonurgia Nova scholarship, Arles / IMEB Bourges, France
2008 artist in residence at Music OMI, Ghent, NY.
2008 artist in residence at STEIM, Amsterdam
2006 artist in residence O'artotca Gallery, Milano
2006 artist in residence at STEIM, Amsterdam
2006 artist in residence at EMS studio, Stockholm
2005 artist in residence at the the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2003 Hoerspiel prize/artist in residence at La Muse en Circuit, Paris for 'Everyday Objects'
2004 Lobende erwahnung Gerausche der Monatswettbewerb /Deutschlendradio fue "Zhare/Zwolfzungen project

text-sound compositions :

2011 Eritrea project , title tba DeutschlandRadio Kultur Berlin.
2011 "A Collection of Smiles" WDR Studio Akustische Kunst, Köln
2010 "He Came Close to Simply Proceeding" Czech Radio, Prague
2009 "Children's America" WDR Studio Akustische Kunst, Köln
2009 “Camapanas” RNE / Islas Resonantes /Canary Islands
2009 “Arcoparlante” DeutschlandRadio Kultur Berlin
2008 “Exposè” author production
2008 “Gesualdo Translations” DeutschlandRadio Berlin
2007 “The Feelings of Objects” DeutschlandRadio Berlin
2006 'Zwoelfzungen', DeutschlandRadio Berlin
2005 'African Feedback', author production.
2005 'Steam', with Antje Vowinckel (radio version), WDR Studio fuer Akustische Kunst
2004 'The Mouth', Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin.
2004 'New York Earshots', with Antje Vowinckel (istallation version), Bonn Biennale.
2003 'Il Fiore della Bocca', DeutschlandRadio Berlin
2003 'Everyday Objects', La Muse en Circuit, Paris
2003 'The Whistling Republic', WDR Studio fuer Akustische Kunst, Koeln
2002 'Die Schnellsten Woerter', WDR Studio fuer Akustische Kunst, Koeln_
2002 'Centolire' : Per le Rime, Rai Radio3
2000 'Centolire : Il Parco a Tema', Rai Radio3
1998 Luky, Radioplay. Author production.

selected discography :

2011 "A Color Photo of the Horse" with Trophies, tba on DS al Coda Records.
2011 "Become Objects of Daily Use" with Trophies, tba on Monotype Records
2011 "Royals" Monotyper Records
2009 “Zwölfzungen” Sedimental Records
2007 'African Feedback', Errantbodies Press' (book + cd).
2007 'Her Name', Crouton Music.
2007 'Exposé' ,cd + limited multiple edition on Die Schactel (prints + cds)
2006 'Il Fiore della Bocca" text-sound composition, Rossbin-DeutschlandRadio
2005 'Breath on the floor' with Michel Doneda, Absint Records/Berlin
2004 'Strom', Alessandro Bosetti, Michel Doneda, Boris Baltschun, Serge Bagdassarians, Potlatch cd
2004 'Zona',Alessandro Bosetti saxophone solo cd, Grob records cd 2004
2004 '7x4x7, Schwimmer, (Alessandro Bosetti, Sabine Vogel, Michael Griener),Creative sources 2004
2003 'Berlin reeds’, solo, mini-cd, Absinth records (split w/ Kai Fagaschinski, Rudi Mahall, Gregor Hotz).
2003 'Charlemagne, la vue attachèe sur son lac de constance, amoreux de l'abime caché' with Antje Vowinckel, cd, Bowindo recordings
2003 'Berlin reeds’, solo, mini-cd, Absinth records
2003 ‘Alessandro Bosetti-Annette Krebs’, cd, Grob records
2003 'Places dans l'air' Alessandro Bosetti, Michel Doneda-Bhob Rainey, Potlach records
2002 'Parla', alessandro bosetti - guenter christmann duo , nat nat 03, 7”lp
2001 'Paper- Paper', alessandro bosetti, annette krebs, nat nat 02, 7"lp
2002 'Pinocchio' Alessandro Bosetti- Melgun, Nat Nat cd2002
Phosphor, Phosphor ( Axel. Doerner, A. Krebs, A. Bosetti, A. Neumann, B. Beins, M. Renkel, R. Hayward, I. Schick ) Potlach p501, cd
2000, 'La macchina che moltiplica a per tre', Fringes 05 cd, Alessandro Bosetti/Melgùn
2000, 'Postura', Bosetti, Peter Kowald, Luigi Mosso, Astrid Weins, Fringes 08 lp
1999, 'Oreledigneur', Fringes 04 lp, Oreledigneur
1997, 'Melgùn', erosha 011 cd, melgùn
1995 re d'ottavi, CMC 9952-2 cd, alessandro bosetti quintetto

compilations / pubblications :
2010 Wind Measures tape compilation
2010 Playing with Words,double CD compilation. Grünerekorder.
2009 Islas Resonantes (also compositions of Jose Iges, Christina Kubisch, Michael Fahres a.o.).
2008 Playing with Words, The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice, edited by Cathy Lane. Book, RGAP
2006 7CD-Box "Musik in Deutschland 1950-2000", Edition Deutsches Musikrat, with Phosphor
2006 Improvised Music from Japan Magazine + cd ( special Berlin edtion), with African Feedback (extracts 1 to 8)
2004 'Everyday Objects' in "Element", cd compilation , La Muse en Circuit
2004 "labor-cd - labor sonor / kule / berlin", solo and with Phospor, Charhizma026 / cd027.
2004 Reduktion , Peter Niklas Wilson book + cd, one track with Phosphor, Edition Neue Zeitschrift fuer Musik