Alessandro Bosetti

Alessandro Bosetti (Milano, Italy, 1973) is a composer, performer and sound artist currently based in Marseille. Most of his works delve on musicality of spoken language and sonorous aspects of verbal communication. He utilises misunderstandings, translations and interviews as compositional tools.

Bosetti has presented his work at venues and festival like like GRM/Presences Electroniques festival in Paris, Liquid Architecture Melbourne and Sydney, Roulette in NYC, The Stone in NYC and Cafe OTO in London among countless other all over Europe, Asia and the United States.
One of the most innovative radio artists of his generation he created a vast body of work of hybrid, award winning, text-sound and radio compositions for the main Radio and Electro Acoustic Music studios in Europe, most notably for the historical WDR's Studio Akustische Kunst in Cologne and Deutschland Radio Kultur in Berlin.

Most recently he was awarded the Phonurgia Nova prize 2012 for his composition "636Åç (RTBF 2010) and the IDAF prize 2013 for his performance "Mask Mirror" an instrument and software that reorganizes speech for musical purposes enacting an electronic ventriloquism.
As a concert composer he has been writing for ensembles and as the Neuevocalsolisten Stuttgart, the Eklekto/Centre International de Percussions in Geneva, Kammerensemble Neue Musik and Die Maulwerker in Berlin and the Janacek Opera house in Brno.
He plays regularly with his ensembles Trophies with drummer Tony Buck and fretless guitarist Kenta Nagai and in duo with pianist Chris Abrahams (The Necks).

Upcoming pubblications include a DVD collection of recent video work on the Korean imprint The Manual and a 4 CD's retrospective collection of radio works on Monotype records.