Composer and sound artist Alessandro Bosetti develops a practice centred on the musicality of language, the voice understood as an autonomous object, and the relationships between sound and memory. He creates singular artistic devices, often connected to the radio medium, and pursues an ongoing inquiry into aesthetic categories and modes of listening.

He is particularly known for the archive of anonymous voices Plane/Talea, the digital ventriloquism device MaskMirror, and works exploring vocal autobiography and family ties. These include the music theatre piece Journal de bord, in which he re-sings his mother’s navigation diary as an exercise in vocal calligraphy, and the Hörspiel Defensa 1111, created in Buenos Aires while retracing the traces of a young grandfather who disappeared.

Alongside a body of compositions in hybrid forms, Bosetti has produced a substantial corpus of radio works for major European and international broadcasters including Deutschlandfunk Kultur, WDR3 Studio Akustische Kunst, ABC Australia, Rai Radio 3 and France Culture. These works have received numerous distinctions, including the Prix Palma Ars Acustica, the Prix Phonurgia Nova and the ARD Hörspiel des Monats Award.

Recent works include L’histoire sentimentale des intervalles, composed for the Dedalus ensemble and based on a mnemonic exercise in harmonic divination, as well as a trilogy of participatory sound performances: La memoria risiede nel lobo dell’orecchio (Short Theatre, Festival Parallèle and Triennale Milano), La corale del soffio (Aix-en-Provence), and Metafora, la fuga della voce, currently in development for the Serralves Museum in Porto.

Alessandro Bosetti has composed for and collaborated with ensembles and artists including Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Carol Robinson, Reinier van Houdt, Ensemble Eklekto, Ensemble KNM Berlin, Ensemble Instant Donné, Vincent Lhermet, Tony Buck and Kenta Nagai within the trio Trophies, the Dedalus ensemble, Alessandra Novaga, and the poet Liliane Giraudon, with whom he maintains an ongoing artistic correspondence.

His music has been presented at numerous international festivals, including Festival d’Automne in Paris, Musica in Strasbourg, Eclat in Stuttgart, GRM’s Présences Électroniques, Liquid Architecture in Melbourne, the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Ruido in Buenos Aires and Dotolim in Seoul.

His work has been released by labels such as Three:Four Records, Errant Bodies Press, Holidays Records, Kohlhaas, Xong, Rossbin, Sedimental, Unsounds and Monotype, which devoted a four-CD retrospective box set to his work.

In 2021, Les Presses du Réel published Thèses/Voix, a collection of texts situated between theory, poetry and score.

In autumn 2026, Three:Four Records will also release L’histoire sentimentale des intervalles, created with the Dedalus ensemble.

Alessandro Bosetti lives and works in Marseille, France.