Lea Bertucci and ensemble
Saturday, July 31, 2021
Three improvised sets at 2 pm, 4 pm and 6 pm
Location: Jacob Riis Beach handball courts, Queens, NY
FREE
ENSEMBLE:
Lea Bertucci - Alto Sax
Chris Pitsiokos - Alto Sax
Ben Bennett - Percussion
Shayna Dunkleman - Percussion
“Our musical aim is to excite the acoustic conditions within the racquetball courts. Consider the architecture: one hard, flat horizontal floor with two hard, flat, parallel walls of concrete. Consider how the sound travels from the impulse (air on reed, striker on surface, etc) to the resonant body (bore of the saxophone, shell of the drum) and out into the architectural space. ”
Lea Bertucci is an experimental musician, composer and performer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. Her discography spans over a decade, with eight releases of full-length solo albums and a number of collaborative projects. In 2018 and 2019, she released the critically acclaimed solo albums Metal Aether and Resonant Field on NNA Tapes and has since gone on to found her own imprint, Cibachrome Editions, with 2021’s A Visible Length of Light as the inaugural release.
Her collaborations extend to other chamber-noise projects, including a recently formed duo with vocalist Amirtha Kidambi. This collaboration finds new territory in extending the sonic possibilities of the human voice through electronic manipulation with tape and free improvisation. Their debut album Phase Eclipse was released on Astral Spirits Records in 2019 and followed up with End of Softness EP in 2020.
She has performed and exhibited extensively across the US and Europe with presenters such as The Museum of Modern Art New York, Blank Forms, Gagosian Gallery NYC, Pioneer Works, The Kitchen, The Walker Museum, PS1, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, Sound of Stockholm Festival, and Unsound Festival Krakow. She has attended residencies at The MacDowell Colony, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and ISSUE Project Room, among others. In 2018, she was awarded a Jfund for New Music grant from the American Composers’ Forum and a commission for a brass octet from the Levy Gorvy Gallery in New York. She is currently working on a number of commissions from the INA GRM in Paris, Quartetto Maurice in Turin and by ARS Nova Workshop in Philadelphia for new compositions that are forthcoming in 2021/22.
http://lea-bertucci.com/