BOSETTI, ALESSANDRO - ZWÖLFZUNGEN (CD - USED m-/vg+)


"Zwolfungen (twelve portraits of languages I don't understand) compact disc with original artwork by Baltimore artist Erin Womack and handmade letterpress ten-panel cardstock sleeves by Shelter Bookworks. The pressing is limited to 500 copies. 'I like to listen to languages I don't understand. I like the moment when the understanding of words stops and every language starts to make noise. All languages have a special sound, some more than others have particular acoustic characteristics that delight this musician's ears. For Zwolfzungen I collected recordings of eleven languages I'm not, or partially, able to speak and understand. Eleven languages I encountered in my travels, whose sound I especially liked. Moreover, I invented a twelfth one, developed and learned during the past years and featured as a last installment of the series. Zwolfzungen could be translated as twelve languages as well as twelve tongues. I try to misunderstand each one of those languages as much as I can. They include, among others: Dogo, Basque, Urdu, Mandarin, Cherokee, Japanese and Zulu. For each language's recording I developed a specific piece of music, disengaging from the meaning of the words and instead concentrating on its sound and rhythm. The pieces are not intended as features or documentaries as I'm not inserting any explanatory aspect into their context. I used whatever compositional ideas and methods the source material inspired : tape collage, electro-acoustic processing, max-msp, low-fi sound devices and then performed them live, mixing my voice with pre-recorded and realtime electro- acoustic materials. Each piece is a unique musical universe and be may listened to individually or as a total group. Zwolfzungen was originally commissioned in 2005 as a radio art piece for Deutschland Radio Kultur in Berlin and re-worked as a multi-channel live performance in 2007." (label info)
in stock | US| 2010| m-/vg+| SEDIMENTAL | 10.00


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