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Alessandro Bosetti

African Feedback, extract 11. l 30:21 20.8mb .mp3

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African Feedback, extract 11.
Conversation with Dounerou Apema Dolo, 19 november 2004 in Ogol Leye, Sangha, Mali, West Africa. Conversation is held while Dounerou is listening, with headphones, to Alessandro Bosetti's "Zona", Christian Zanesi's "Arkheion", Axel Doerner's "Trumpet Solo", Otomo Yoshide's "Digital Tranqullizer". In the same time Dounerou is listenings he's also keeping a small shop open and sometime, without putting the headphones off, he serves a client (in lapse of time of the conversation he sold a packet o cigarettes, one packet of coffee, one box of matches and two boxes of sardines). Dounerou refused to be payed for this conversation.
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For the "African Feedback" project I travelled in West Africa with a CD player and a selection of experimental, electro-acoustic, minimal and improvised music.This "portable memory" represented my background as a musician or, in other words, my personal "cosmogony". The playlist was compiled choosing among my favorite records. I did propose a listening of those sounds to people completely unaware of them and I did ask for a description. I did never explain what they were listening to.They listened the music through headphones and I recorded in the meanwhile the description or imitation they produced in real time.The presence of the headphones permitted not to have traces of the original musics in the new recordings but just the "feedback" received from the listener. The dynamics of misunderstandings, of interest or indifference in front of my propositions in sound constituted the focal point of my curiosity and reflection. Recordings took place in November 2004 in Dogon and Mossi villages between Mali and Burkina Faso. African feedback consists in one text-sound composition project based on the spoken word materials recollected in West Africa and in many "extracts" of unprocessed field materials disseminated in web pages, magazines, compilations, exibitions.

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