Lea Bertucci @ Opus 40

Notice Recordings and Opus 40

presented in partnership with Wave Farm

Lea Bertucci hyperlocal radio transmissions and solo performance

with special guests: Ben Vida / Zach Layton / Victoria Keddie 

3:30 gates / 4:30 Event / On The Sculpture *Limited Number of Tickets Avail*

no chairs allowed on sculpture, blankets and small cushions are OK, attendees are encouraged to explore the sculpture during performance. Chairs on the adjacent Meadow are OK. 

For this performance at Opus 40, Lea Bertucci will present a solo performance for electronics, voice, samples and multichannel radio. Four low-range FM transmitters, provided courtesy of Wave Farm, will be sending audio throughout the performance to radios installed within the labyrinthine walls of Opus 40 to create spatialized sonic gestures. Audience members are invited to circulate through the grounds as the performance takes place, live 'mixing' the four channels as they move.

Lea Bertucci is an artist, composer and performer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. In addition to her longstanding practice with woodwind instruments, her work incorporates multichannel speaker arrays, radical methods of free improvisation and creative misuses of audio technology applied to field recording and sampling/collage techniques. In recent years, her projects have expanded toward site-specific and site-responsive sonic investigations of architecture and acoustics. Her autodidactic and idiosyncratic approach to music is marked by dense masses of sustained dissonance and a fascination with the sonic substance of common experience through eccentric methods of field recording and collage. Tape manipulation and other creative recording techniques push the limits of the recorded medium to elicit a visceral sonic and emotional experience from the listener.

She has performed extensively across the US and Europe with presenters such as The Museum of Modern Art New York, Blank Forms, Gagosian Gallery, Pioneer Works, The Kitchen, The Walker Museum, Tempo Reale in Florence, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, Sound of Stockholm Festival, ReWire Festival, Borderline Festival, and Unsound Festival Krakow.

"Lea Bertucci's music seems to obey laws of physics that only apply at the quantum level. It can give the impression that the listener is hearing the music from multiple directions at once, or that each iteration of a given tone exists in alternate timelines." - Pitchfork

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