Three-Tongues-Montreal

A sound workshop with Alessandro Bosetti

 

in collaboration with Diffusion System Minuit

 

Sunday May 31 from 7pm to 10pm
Monday June 1 and Tuesday June 2 from 10am to 7pm
at articule (262 Fairmount O.)
Wednesday, June 3 evening: public performance at the Cagibi (5490 boulevard St-Laurent)
Limited space, reserve your place: info@articule.com

Sound and speech artist Alessandro Bosetti proposes a three-day workshop on the creation of a new and completely useless (or maybe not ?) language created by the fusion of three widely spoken languages in Montreal : French, English and Italian. Specifically, participants will focus on the sonorous aspects of spoken language to explore it's relation to communication, politics and identity.

 

The workshop is intended for artists interested in sound and language. No special technical or musical skills are required. The only requirement is that participants be open to creative work and be willing to perform in front of an audience.

 

Workshop activities will include :
1) exploring the linguistic fringe between the three languages through field recordings, explorations and collective creative work.
2) creating a sketch of a new language, including hybrid linguistic forms discovered in the city as well as new words/phrases and inflections that will be made up. We will try to produce a little dictionary and have the participants learn and practice the new vocabulary. It will be encouraged to use the new language as the main language spoken in the workshop.
3) creating an acoustic portrait of this language and its "music" (or noise). This will be presented as a live performance or an electro-acoustic piece.

 

Alessandro Bosetti was born in Milan, Italy in 1973. He is a composer and sound artist working on the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication, producing text-sound compositions featured in live performances, radio broadcastings and published recordings. In his work he moves between sound anthropology and composition, often including translation and misunderstanding in the creative process. Recent projects include African Feedback (Errant Bodies press), the interactive speaking machine "MaskMirror" (STEIM, Kunstradio.at a.o. ) and an ongoing project on linguistic enclaves in the USA. Alessandro Bosetti lives between Berlin (Germany) and Baltimore (USA).