creation

"What do you want from me?
- I'd like to do a portrait of your voice.
- Then this is my portrait.
- No. I think your voice and you are not the same thing."

A family of voice portraits lives its sonic life. A tangle of sounds and affections, suspended between Renaissance polyphony and family din.

Alessandro Bosetti, sound artist and composer, paints a series of portraits from a documentary work and conversations recorded in Italy during a summer. He chose and collected six voices articulated over three generations, three of female gender and three of male gender. He then disassembled and assembled them into a palimpsest that integrates three elements: polyphonic writing, collage of thousands of fragments and writing for a portraitist.

A cloud of voices, charged like a thunderstorm, makes the audience experience all the emotions of an imaginary and magical community through an immersive and polyphonic musical writing while the portraitist shares this choral narrative with the audience, who find themselves immersed in a tightly packed crowd, both claustrophobic and nourishing (specific to each family).

In the background, half hidden: the identities of the six anonymous models speak for themselves, of a country loved and hated, in an everyday language impregnated with the present.

Only the voices count, which, as markers of an absolute generality, resemble souls to which an identity has not yet been attributed.

The GMEM is pleased to continue its partnership with the Ensemble Neue Vocalsolisten of Stuttgart with this creation.

Mentions
Biography(s)
Voices Portraits
Alessandro Bosetti
Show
Musical theater

DURATION
50 min.

Distribution

Alessandro Bosetti
composer, sound artist, portraitist

Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
vocal ensemble

Johanna Vargas
soprano

Truike van der Poel
mezzo soprano

Martin Nagy
tenor

Guillermo Anzorena
baritone

Andreas Fischer
bass

Giovanni Donadini / Canedicoda
costume designer

Lucie Delorme
lighting designer

Philippe Boinon
sound and general management

On tour

EN 2022

November 5 - Kontraklang festival, Villa Elisabeth, Berlin (DE)

IN 2021

December 16 - Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil, Festival Mesure pour Mesure 2021, Montreuil (93)
October 8 - Theaterhaus, Festival Musik der Jahrhunderte, Stuttgart (DE)
May 15 - Propagations, GMEM festival, Marseille

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