Parallèle 15

Dance, performance, visual arts

January 31—February 8, 2025

Festival of international emerging artistic practices

Marseille and Aix-en-Provence

Alessandro Bosetti
La memoria risiede nel lobo dell’orecchio (Memory resides in the earlobe)

2024

February 8 at 12:00
Friche la Belle de Mai, Le Module

Performance
Duration: 55 min

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In partnership with GMEM - Centre national de création musicale
A project supported by the European Union's Creative Europe program

Composer and sound artist Alessandro Bosetti invites the audience to a series of sound mnemonics practices in a hypothetical "palace of sound memory", a physical and imaginary space containing sound memories linked to life stories.

Noises, sighs, melodies and words. Stories attached, like skin, to certain sounds that resurface from a desired, rewritten, celebrated past. A place that is perhaps only mental, where we rediscover certain memories through meditations, exercises and experiences for which we must close our eyes. What does an unforgettable noise sound like?

Sound writing emerges from a convocation of sounds and strives to reconstruct them, transform them, remodel them and recompose them in the mind and heart. For both the listener and the author, it is about searching for the emotions that, among sounds, allow us to remember some and forget others, moving lightly in the territory between oblivion and auditory hallucination.

La memoria risiede nel lobo dell’orecchio (Memory resides in the earlobe) is a sound performance produced as part of the Short Theatre festival and the European project Radio That Matters in collaboration with a community of blind and visually impaired people attending the A.S.P. Sant'Alessio Margherita di Savoia in Rome.

Credits

Distribution and special thanks

With the voices and the words of Marco Guardati, Sonia Gioia, Giovanni Florio, Alessio Federici, Nikolaj Llevliev, Gianluigi degli Atti
Special thanks to Piersandra Di Matteo, Francesco Di Stefano, Matteo Angius, Marzia Bonacci
A project supported by the program Europe creative of the European union.

Photos

 Maria Giovanna Sodero / Circa Studio / Short Theatre

Biographie

Based in Marseille, Alessandro Bosetti is a composer and sound artist. He has a particular interest in the musicality of language and the voice, conceived as an autonomous object, as well as the relationship between sound and memory. He creates surprising devices, often linked to the medium of radio, and pursues a tireless exploration that questions aesthetic categories and listening postures.

His recent works include the voice archives of Plane/Talea (ongoing), the radio performances Je ne suis pas là pour parler (2019) and Consensus Partium (2020 – with David Christoffel), the composition cycle Pièces à pédales (2021), and the musical theater pieces Journal de Bord and Portraits des Voix (2018 and 2021). The composition of Histoire Sentimentale des Intervalles for the Dedalus ensemble is at the heart of his current work, focusing on the idea of sound-based mnemonics.

Alessandro Bosetti's music has been featured at festivals such as the Festival d’Automne in Paris, Festival Éclat in Stuttgart, the GRM's Présences Électroniques festival, Liquid Architecture in Melbourne, the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, and Festival Musica in Strasbourg. His work has been released on numerous labels, including Errant Bodies Press, Holidays Records, Kohlhaas, Xong, Rossbin, Sedimental, Unsounds, and Monotype, which dedicated a retrospective box set (4 CDs) to him in 2016.

In 2021, Les Presses du Réel published his book Thèses/Voix—a collection of texts spanning theory, poetry, and scores.