exposè

Listening room with 33 ideas and 3 loops. Produced in collaboration with die Schachtel. Milano, O'Artoteca. Texts and music : Alessandro Bosetti. Voice : Audrey Chen. Translations : Amanda Coulson. Design : Dinamo, Milano.
Produced January / February 2007 in Milano during a residency program at O'Artoteca. Thanks to Audrey Chen, Giuseppe Ielasi, Sara Seringhelli, Fabio Carboni and Bruno Stucchi

"Europe is a castle. Elsewhere you find a discomfort that is both daily and cruel. After much traveling, it is absolutely necessary to release certain ideas. They clog one’s head. Some have already been carried out. Others will be in the future. Others still are impossible to carry out because they lack any tangible interests. Traveling outside of Europe doesn’t require any report. To continue traveling, however, it’s necessary to get some space from all the things that filled your mind during the delays, queues, the endless transfers. Perhaps, over the years, the restlessness of whoever that couldn’t survive a week locked up in a cell is mitigated by the experience of repetitive comebacks. The castle threatens to collapse. The differences are effaced while the discomfort appears benevolent. Trophies become objects of daily use."
 
aperto

with Audrey Chen. Pneumatic sound structure. Co-produced with High Zero festival 2006 at The Brown Center at Maryland Institute College of Art.

"Right now a mass of clear plastic tubing hangs like creeper vines from the stairwell in the upstairs lobby of the Maryland Institute College of Art's Brown Center. From behind the stairwell, a generator pumps a steady stream of compressed air down through the tubes to the plastic flutes and slide whistles dangling limply at their tips. At just after 10 a.m., most people simply walk past it on their way to class or a meeting. Eventually a tiny woman in a black bob notices the pssssh from the compressor and puts her fingers over one of the flutes, changing the pitch. As her fingers feel out different combinations, what's produced isn't necessarily musical, but it is music. Kind of. Maybe?
The tangle of flutes and whistles is "Aperto"--"open" in Italian--by local cellist and vocalist Audrey Chen and Italian saxophonist Alessandro Bosetti. It's the one installation this year where a passer-by can most affect the sounds being produced. Depending on how many fingers you can wrangle, the combination of possible pitches is theoretically endless, and the sound, as City Paper photographer Jefferson Jackson Steele pointed out, is sort of like the bleeps, whirrs, and bloops of Lt. Uhura's communications equipment in the original Star Trek. The social and improvisational aspect of "Aperto" is part of what links the often static world of sound-art installations to the greater project of High Zero." Baltimore City paper.

steam - new york earshots
with Antje Vowinckel
5.1 surround installation. Commissioned by the Bonn Biennale 2004.

"This piece is an acoustic reconnaissance of the imaginary of New York. A sound diary of our explorations of the city through the voices of the New Yorkers in ten episodes.- There is no paranoia in New York City - There is paranoia in New York City - There is a lot of steam in New York City - Nobody knows where it comes from."