Å5577 6300 (2011) – Alessio Rossato (Italy)
Å5577 – 6300 is the unit of measurement that Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Ångström used to quantify the aurora borealis spectrum, phenomenon which marks the passage between two states: light and dark. Visual phenomenon of aurora borealis is transposed musically in this piece, across the passage between two processes, acoustic and digital.
Ann adds: I loved hearing this piece on first listen. Though not specifically about climate change, this work hints at effects from these changes – light pollution alters how we view (or don’t view) the Aurora Borealis, and on a more metaphorical reading, light and dark forces in human action have brought about these changes.
Check out some spectacular photos of the Aurora here.
Alessio Rossato graduated in Percussion and Electronic Music with A. Vidolin at the Music Conservatory of Venice. In the same city he graduated in Composition with R. Vaglini, and attended the composition course with M. Stroppa at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart. He attended several courses where he has followed the lessons of H. Lachenmann, B. Furrer, T. Hosokawa, M. Andre, S. Sciarrino, P. Manoury, A. Richard, A. Di Scipio.
Rossato’s works were performed in several places and festivals: 29° Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano, Teatro La Fenice, 54° Biennale Musica (Venice), Stagione Rondò Divertimento Ensemble (Milan), EMUFest and Musica Verticale (Rome), Conservatorium van Amsterdam (Holland), UNAM (Mexico City), The BEAMS Festival Electronic Music Half Marathon (Boston), Festival de Radio France et de Montpellier (France), FZML Leipzig (Germany), L’apostrophe Théâtre des Louvrais à Pontoise (France), FIMNME (Mexico City), Sound New (Canterbury 2011), L1danceFest 2015 Budapest (Hungary), Listening Room (Helsinki), NuDanceFest 2017 Bratislava (Slovakia), Notafe 2017 (Estonia), Conservatorio Nacional de Música (Mexico City), OUA Electroacoustic Music Festival 2017 (Osaka), Award of Distinction on MA/IN Matera 2017 (Italy), ICAD 2018 Michigan Technological University, and more.
With various musical contexts, he has played in Italy, Turkey, France, Germany, Switzerland and Japan.
He played percussion with ensemble l’Arsenale and he has participated in many concerts with Neue Vocalsolisten, Latvian National Radio Choir, Mario Caroli, and others.
He was Electroacoustic Composition Teacher at (S. Cecilia) Music Conservatory of Rome, and currently is composition Teacher in Music Conservatory of Catanzaro (Italy).
Ann DuHamel 