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Alessandro Bosetti - FasFari
LP on Xing (XONG collection XX13) out February 2024, order at https://www.soundohm.com/product/fasfari-lp-white and at https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11780&menu=2
Collector's edition available at https://www.soundohm.com/product/fasfari-lp-collector-s-ed and at https://shop.flash---art.it/products/alessandro-bosetti-fasfari
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Xing presents the new LP FasFari by Alessandro Bosetti, thirteenth release of the XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl in a limited and numbered edition of 150 copies, together with a print run of 20 collector's editions, each accompanied by a graphic and text table, designed and hand drawn by the artist using the phonetic alphabet, transcribing the memories of his encounter with each 'voice donor’.
FasFari is composed of short vocal emissions, sound particles invoking meaning without ever fully unfolding it and barely suggesting a body and a biographical identity. FasFari is the 36th incarnation of Plane Talea, an archive/instrument made up of anonymous voices - to date more than 80 - sorted into thousands of utterances. Each Plane Talea performance is preceded by individual recording encounters in which volunteers donate their voice. The collected utterances are ordered in an idiosyncratic taxonomy that constitutes an instrument, and then played to create utopian vocal music, a polyphony building teeming textures from the multiplication of the details and imperfections of which the voices are carriers.
FasFari relies exclusively on the voice, with no sound processing, cloning or selection through AI. Vocal sounds are recomposed, recombined, juxtaposed or superimposed. All sentences begin and end naturally. Just-intoned chords and pulsating rhythms emerge, but the material suggests an interrogative music made of microtonal layerings and unlikely complex mechanisms.
Alessandro Bosetti, born in Milan and living in Marseille, is a composer and sound artist with a particular interest in the musicality of language and in the voice. His works connect language, voice, and sound within complex constructions, often crossed by oblique irony.
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Xong is a collection produced by Xing, a vinyl-only record label focusing on the variegated worlds of live performativity. The collection explores a geography of artists who present this sonic field as a platform to expand their staged worlds. "The space of the record" is given focus and amplifies their poetics as both a sonic and physical phenomenon. Each physical record is a numbered edition on white vinyl hosting the solidification of the gesture. Wave upon wave, a series of "Music-Non-Music" to actualize both the artists' and listeners' imagination.
Xing is a cultural organization based in Bologna, Italy, planning, supporting, and promoting products and events characterized by an interdisciplinary approach toward the issues of contemporary culture.
The records are distributed in the experimental music and art circuits. Main retailers for international sale: Soundohm (mail order) and Flash Art (only collector’s editions).
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Composed by Alessandro Bosetti, mixed at GMEM - Centre national de création musicale de Marseille, mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, cover by Robert Horvitz, Form is Still the Language of Time, 1970 (detail), artwork by Xing, printed by handle with care Berlin, format vinyl (white), cat.n° XONG collection XX13 (2024), label Xing.
The author thanks: Festival Danae Milano, Casa Besta Brusio, Begoña Feijoó Fariña, Festival Wallofsounds Palermo, Kunst Meran - Merano Arte, GMEM-cncm, Holidays Records, Robert Horvitz, and all the anonymous voice donors. ‘I treasure all the meetings and conversations we had and that will remain secret.’
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