“Portraits de voix”, radio art piece with Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart on Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
Voices lead a life of their own beyond the people to whom they used to belong. Composer Alessandro Bosetti portrays four voices and explores the relationships between them.
Listen to the full hour long piece commissioned by the Festival D’Automne a Paris, co-composed by Alessandro Bosetti and David Christoffel, and broadcasted by RTS national Swiss Radio, Musique D’Avenir. Introduced by a conversation with Anne Gillot.
18 Minutes long radiophonic version for Radio Papesse. With Carol Robinson, Alexandre Babel, Kenta Nagai. The voice of Alessandro Bosetti traces a lost segment of his childood.
He sings the journal written by his mother during a sailing trip in the atlantic ocean in 1978. The piece enacts a vocal calligraphy that faithfully follows the mother’s voicein the form of a musical monodrama. Italian language.
« The river » is a story where the characters are chords (harmonic ratios). They do not have a name or a gender and the only way to evoke them is by recalling and hearing the corresponding relation between frequencies. The story is about a nightly trip on a barge along a mysterious river. The river is also the frontier between two opposite kingdoms and it’s populated by memories, fog and allegoric dreams. Commissioned by the Institut International de Recherche sur la Radio et la Magie. English language.
On the Serralves Periscope Series. The second episode of Periscope features the appearances of Alessandro Bosetti who tells us of sound intervals and 14th-century composer Guillaume de Machaut, Sara Manente with the words of Ottessa Moshfegh and David Toop with a reflection on improvisation and worms around a text by Jane Bennett. English language.
Feature show on the upcoming book Thèses/Voix with Chloe Despax and Antoine Chanteloup for « L’Art de l’écoute » on Radio Grenouille in Marseille. 1h, french language.
Je ne suis pas là pour parler on RTS (Swiss national radio) – Le Labo, atelier de création d’art radiophonique. Full piece, french language.
Je ne suis pas là pour parler in the Sélection Marmite radiophonique 2021 from the festival Longueur d’ondes. Full piece, french language.
Full piece (all languages) followed by a conversation on Location Series by Chloe Sanchez and Daniel Deshays (french language). On an invitation by the Numéro Zéro festival in Forcalquier.
Imagine an America ruled by children. They staff the post offices, run the schools, oversee the military, and decide on the form of government. Full piece, english language. 2009 / Alessandro Bosetti / WDR Germany, Germany. With an interview by Delaney Hall.
Series of five radio documentaries on the remnants of the Italian language in Eritrea. In italian language. Asmara – Massawa 2012, produced for Rai Radio 3, tresoldi.
A full Plane/Talea set recorded at festival Densites in 2018 by Anne Montaron for France Musique followed by a solo voice set by amazing Agnes Hvizdalek.
Radiophonic version of the piece in five miniatures, produced for France Musique. With Carol Robinson.
Interview with Thomas Baumgartner with live mask mirror set and other audio excerpts on France Culture. French language, 1h long.
A hour long feature with Trophies concert excerpts and interview on RTS, national Swiss radio. From 2012.
Radio opera co-created with Sebastien Roux on Dante Alighieri 13th century novel. On France Culture webpage.
When Alessandro Bosetti first heard lady Bonosa speak, he fell in love with her language, the way she spoke, the pitch, the rhythm, the melodies within her words.
Listen to the complete piece on ABC radio website.