// Bio

Guitarist and composer, he is especially interested in working in collaboration with other art forms and works with experimental cinema and audiovisual art.

He composes instrumental music as well as electroacoustic pieces for analog live electronics and computer.

- My personal research focuses on illusion, relationship between sounds and geometry, animal sound communication, emotions and thoughts. My music is related to the control of physical gesture, timbre, acoustic and natural sound in order to create electronic structures and effects -

As a performer he plays eguitar and live electronics in the audiovisual project Flushing Device.

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// News

*Dec 12 2009
Alternative Film Video 2009 Academic film center. Student's city cultural center Novi Beograd, Serbia. "Try hard Johnny!".

*Nov 7 2009
Conference: Music in Mooltimedia. Club to club / Toshare Teatro Gobetti, Torino.

*Sept 24 2009 Screening: ReMap 2 Athens, Greece. "The distance to the sun".

*Sept. 18 2009
Andrea Bruciati presents The distance to the sun. Laboratorio di restauro della Soprintendenza per i beni storici, artistici ed etnoantropologici per le province di Verona, Rovigo e Vicenza. Press release

*July 1-5 2009
Screening: Tabor Film Festival, Kino OŠ K.Š.Gjalskog, Veliki Tabor Coratia. "Try Hard Johnny!".

*June 13-28 2009
Exhibition: Mnemosyne, Centro Arti Visive Peschiera. "Illumination complete (action#5)".

*June 4-7 2009
Screening: ISFF DETMOLD - International Short Film Festival 2009. "Try Hard Johnny!"

*May 2009
Exhibition: Espansione (mobile) Inno alla mobilità del video. Neon Gallery, Milano. "Alan walks to a red point"

*Until March. 29 2009:
Exhibition: Emerging Talents, New Italian Arts. Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi Firenze. "The Distance To The Sun"

*Jan. 24 2009:
Concert: "The distance to the sun" at Netmage 09, Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna.

* "Stone" on Phono-photographie / collection#4. Trace Label, Paris.

Archive (to be updated soon)
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// Works

// SOLO

- Emergences (2008)
For electric guitar *c. 11 min.
(Score and studio recording)

- Mille Plateux (2004)
Electronic music piece for computer processed loops and woodblocks)
(Reaktor patch and studio recording)

- In-tra (2003-present)
Performance for live electronics.
i (sine wave, noise, pulse generator, pitch shifter, tape echo, analog reverb, computer - 2006). N. Gen. built by Albin Roslund *c. 7-8 min;
(Score and studio recording)


ii (function generators, fuzz, computer - 2003) *c. 4 min.
(Audiomulch patch and studio recording)

iii (contrabass and live electronics - in progress).

// ENSEMBLE

- Emergences (in progress) For strings, 3 flutes a coulisse, 3 ocarinas, percussion, e. guitar.

- Harmonic Cosmo (2007)
For voice and live electronics *c. 8 min.

- Pale Blue Meadows (2008)
For reverb-processed eguitar ensemble and live electronics *c. 7'.
(Score and studio recording)

// Soundscape

- A narration about some hunks of matter (2006-2008).
i - 8 chs. soundscape composition. *c. 10 min.
(Sonogram and dvd-rom);
ii - Stereo soundscape composition. *c. 3 min.
(Sonogram and cd-rom)

- Summer Stellar (late summer 2008, Norht Italy). Stereo unprocessed night recording. *c. 8 min.

// Audiovisual, films

- Monotono (2004)
Audiovisual concert. Performed by Alessandro Massobrio and Valentina Besegher. Live video, e.guit, live electronics. *25 to 40 min.

- Try Hard Johnny! (2007)
Experimental video work by Valentina Besegher and Alessandro Massobrio. c. *4 min.

- Alan walks to a RED point (2007)
Super8 film by Andrea Dojmi. Music by Andrea Dojmi (7 days-wild-light) and Flushing Device (Clouds Of Magellan). *c. 8 min.

- The distance to the sun (2007)
Super8 film by Andrea Dojmi, music by Flushing Device. Produced by Andrea Dojmi and Netmage Festival. *c. 29 min.

- Jenner (2008)
Audiovisual concert. Performed by Alessandro Massobrio and Valentina Besegher. Live video, e. guit, live electronics. *25 to 35 min.

- My finger was pricked by a rose thorn (2008)
Experimental video by Valentina Besegher. Music by Flushing Device (Bad Horse). *c. 11 min.

- Illumination complete (action#5) (2008)
Open set action by Andrea Dojmi. Music (Pillow Fights) and location recordings by Alessandro Massobro. Produced by Andrea Dojmi; coproduced by Fondazione Antonio Ratti. *ca. 6 min.

// Installations

- The distance to the sun (2007)
Super8 film by Andrea Dojmi, music by Flushing Device. Produced by Andrea Dojmi and Netmage Festival. *c. 29 min.

- Sports minstry designed to promote community outreach develop volounteer leadership and share the love of christ with children and their families, using something as simple as a basketball. (2008)
2 channels film installation by Andrea Dojmi. Sound by Flushing Device.

- Illumination complete (action#5) (2008)
Open set action by Andrea Dojmi. Music (Pillow Fights) and location recordings by Flushing Device. Produced by Andrea Dojmi; coproduced by Fondazione Antonio Ratti. *ca. 6 min.

// Cd/Dvd

Album:

- EVENT HORIZON. Cd album by Flushing Device. Produced by Alessandro Massobrio and Paolo Beltrando. Betulla Records 2006.
- SEE THE LURKING HALL SPREADS FROM THE HARVEST-FIELD (three pieces for film). Cdr by Flushing Device. 2007.
- ECHO POINTS. Cdr by Flushing Device. 2008.

Compilations:

- MENHIR. Double 7" lathe comp. Root Don Lonie For Cash 2009. Includes: "A dog's dream" (free improvisation).
- ONE MINUTE VACATION 06. Cd-r comp. by Aaron Ximm (Quiteamerican) 2007. Includes: "Sweallowing Pigs" (field recording).
- SAVE THE FU2RE. Cd comp. Betulla Records 2007. Includes: "Up There In The Lighthouse".
- SIMULTAN 03. Dvd comp. Simultan Association and the Artists 2007. Includes: "Try Hard Johnny!"

// Related links

www.aimready.com
www.besegher.com
www.flushingdevice.it/blog
www.thedistancetothesun.com

// Contact

alessandro . massobrio @ gmail . com

Flushing Device project:
alessandro @ flushingevice . it
valentina @ flushingdevice . it

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