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Bosetti, Alessandro
Plane/talea 31-34 (2lp)
Since a few years Alessandro Bosetti has been collecting voices that become part of the 'Plane/Talea' archive. The
creation of the archive stems from dozens of individual meetings and recording sessions, in which each voice is detached
from its owner or originator and anonymized. With each new iteration and performance, Bosetti plays the archive as if it
were an instrument. He searches for hidden details and correspondences through exploration, immersion and contemplation.
Each re-activation of the archive results in a dense and
swarming polyphony made up of thousands of short utterances - shorter than any word bearing a meaning - recombined and
interwoven into complex textures. The particularity of the grain of 'Plane/Talea' lies in the autonomous and darting
life that each of these fragments lives in a teeming community of voices. Such polyphonies are rich in microtonal detail
emerging from the incessant juxtaposition of vocal objets trouvés. Harmonic relationships are sometimes rough and
chaotic, other times surprisingly just. The voices are never treated electronically but only recombined and musical
tension is provided by the particular grain, inflection, energy of each one of them in counterpoint to the others and to
a frugally used instrumentarium (Harpsichord, Ondes Martenot, Cristal Baschet, grand piano, analog synth, Hammond
organ). Implicit reference goes to ancient, modern and postmodern forms of vocal polyphony. 'Plane/Talea 31-34' -the
continuation of the homonymous 2016 LP- is a work of sampling that projects an imaginary community and a disembodied
choir. The four arching and extensive tracks were created between 2017 and 2018 and bear the trace of two specific
moments: August nights in a country house in Vicobarone, in the hills of Piacenza (31-32) and a week-long residency at
the Studio Venezia, an environment created by French artist Xavier Veilhan in the French pavilion at the 2017 Venice
Biennale (33-34). Limited to 300 copies on black vinyl.
Price
€ 31.95
Genre
Format
LP - 2 disk
Release
15-02-2022
Label
Item-nr
517732
EAN
0769791980679
Availability
In stock