Thanks to the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal the italian musicians Andrea Gozzi and Francesco Casciaro will present the proget “Do Plot” at the 15th edition of Akousma an international digital music festival.
Thursday October 18
Usine C1345 Lalonde Av. , Montreal
“Do Plot” is a show based on music improvisation between two instruments: the first is traditional while the second is more innovative, named Printstrument. It is a new music instrument belonging to an old technology. PrintStrument is a hybrid polyphonic and electromechanical syntetizer issued from a matrix printer. Thanks to some hardware and software’s “hacking” processes, it is possible to convert an obsolete device into a newer one, with a new identity. In other words, we can create a music intrument capable of producing innovative sounds and relations in the context in which it is played. During the performance, printer’s dots track the sound path and together with the acoustic guitar they write the narravite and music plot.
Andrea Gozzi is a musician and a musicologist. He studied music at the Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis University. He cooperates actively with Tempo Reale, a research, production and music teaching in Florence. Always in Florence, he teaches sound design at the LABA and he is coordinator at the DAMS’s Lezioni di Rock (Rock lessons) laboratory. As musician he has worked with italian and international artists both during live shows and in recording studios.
Francesco Casciaro is a musician, an arranger-composer and a sound technician. He studied at DAMS until 2008 and then he graduated as Interactive Music Technician for Digital Arts at the school of Alto Perfezionamento Musicale in Saluzzo. He has deepened his knowledge in Music IT and Live Electronics at Tempo Reale. There he has expanded his ability in designing and realizing executive environments and space. Since 2009 he has cooperated with Tempo Reale as music studio assistant, by helping the equipe in its last works. Recently he has started realizing interactive systems for shows and intermedial installations.