Caged Structures#4 

Temple of no religion

Alessio Rossato

Caged Structures#4 

[2022] 

Dynamic and temporal structure of this work is inspired by the J. Cage's piece 7’10.554” for a percussionist, specifically the electronic realization of a voice/line (A - All Others) of the score, left (freely) interpretable by John Cage who did not exclude a realization (freely) with electronic/electroacoustic devices supports already in 1956... 

Temple of no religion

[2016] 

Piece created with material recorded during a short residence at Villa Smilea ofMontale Pistoiese (Tuscany - Italy), where Andrea Dami's metal and sheet metal sculptures were sampled in various recording sessions including short improvisations. The sculptures were played in different ways, from the naked hands to wooden sticks, metal, rubber felt or cobblestones or with different thickness chains, different types of microphones were used with "active" recording mode, searching different sound and position in the sculptures. Material were treated with typical processes of early concrete music… 

Graduated in Percussion, Electronic Music and Composition at the Music Conservatory of Venice; he attends Erasmus composition course with M. Stroppa at the MUHO (Stuttgart, Germany). He attended several courses where he has followed the lessons of H. Lachenmann, B. Furrer, M. Andre, S. Sciarrino, P. Manoury, A. Richard, A. Di Scipio ... His works were performed in several places and festivals: Biennale Musica (Venice), Stagione Rondò (Milan), EMUFest, Musica Verticale (Rome), Amsterdam Conservatory (Holland), The BEAMS (Boston), Festival de Radio France (France), FZML Leipzig (Germany), L’apostrophe Théâtre (France), FIMNME, UNAM, Conservatorio Nacional de Música (Mexico City), Sound New (Canterbury), L1danceFest (Hungary), Listening Room (Helsinki), NuDanceFest (Slovakia), Notafe (Estonia), OUA (Osaka), Award of Distinction on MA/IN Matera (Italy), ICAD (Michigan), WOCMT (Taiwan), ISSTA (N. Ireland), SIMN (Brazil), CEMI circles (USA), CRM Rome, Autumn Electronic Sound Festival Osaka, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival,  EPICENTROOM (Russia) , SONIC MATTER (Zurich), Mediterranean Soundscapes Project Cyprus University of Technology Limassol (CY), Ars Electronica Anton Bruckner University (Linz, Austria), ACMC Australasian Computer Music Association 2022, ICSC 2022 6th International CSound Conference Tus Midlands (Ireland), Seoul International Computer Music Festival 2022 etc…

He was Electroacoustic Composition Teacher at Music Conservatory of Rome, in 2021 Trapani (Sicily) and currently is composition Teacher in Music Conservatory of Bari (Italy).