Keynotes
Alessandro Bosetti
Photo: Jeanchristophe Lett
Composer and sound artist, Alessandro Bosetti explores the musicality of language and the voice conceived as an autonomous object, as well as the relationships between sound and memory. He designs singular dispositifs, often linked to the radio medium, and develops a line of inquiry that questions listening in its postures and aesthetic categories. Among his recent works are the anonymous voice archives Plane/Talea, the digital ventriloquism device MaskMirror, and a research project focused on a sonic mnemonic, pursued through performances such as La memoria risiede nel lobo dell’orecchio. His practice draws on a range of techniques—radio art, contemporary composition, vocal polyphony, and conceptual gesture. At the core of his work lies encounter, particularly conversation and the interview, understood as dispositifs that are both generative and performative. Sound and voice thus become both the site and the material of a possible ecology of encounter and memory. Programmed at festivals such as the Festival d’Automne in Paris, the Musica Festival in Strasbourg, the GRM’s Présences Électroniques Festival, Liquid Architecture in Melbourne, and the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Alessandro Bosetti’s music has been widely published by labels and publishers including Three:Four Records, Errant Bodies Press, Les presses du réel, Holidays Records, Kohlhaas, Unsound, and Monotype. Alessandro lives and works in Marseille.
Kerstin Ergenzinger
Photo: Lena Loose
Kerstin Ergenzinger is a sonic and visual artist and
Junior Professor of Acoustic Ecologies and Sound Studies at Bauhaus
University Weimar (DE). She works across the fields of sound, sculpture,
kinetics, light and drawing and explores the diversity of sensory
ecologies and the possibilities of tuning into the differences of the
world.
Kerstin is co-founder of the Sono-Choreographic-Collective for
transdisciplinary art and research, which develops and explores new
somatic and musical research instruments together with alternative ways
of playing, writing and interdisciplinary choreography. Moreover, she
co-edited the volume Navigating Noise (Walther König, Berlin):
a collection of academic and artistic contributions, that addresses the
need for alternative means of orientation to deal with noise. She was fellow
at the Berlin Center of Advanced Studies of the University of the Arts
Berlin and associated artist with the quantum-optical research project
nuClock. Her current research focuses on sonifying and personifying
environmental data together with live listening to environments over
longer periods of time. One important question is how a long-term
collaboration between sonic arts and climate science can be translated
both in cross-disciplinary dialog and joint action and in public
experiences that offer connections to the fragile complexity of
planetary systems.