Lea Bertucci will present a piece for alto saxophone and tape that exists in conversation with the specific acoustic environment of Smack Mellon’s cacophonous gallery space. The performance also incorporates a visual element involving projected light reflections that respond to the motion of her body as she performs

Lea Bertucci is an American sound artist, composer and performer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. Her work often incorporates multi-channel speaker arrays, electroacoustic feedback, extended instrumental/vocal technique, and tape collage. As an instrumentalist, she takes an idiosyncratic approach to the amplification of woodwind instruments, creating organic yet electrified sonic interventions. Her debut solo LP, Resonance Shapes, was released in 2013 on the Obsolete Units label and has been praised by A Closer Listen as “A grand exploration of the possibilities inherent in sound”. She is a 2016 MacDowell Fellow in composition, a 2015 ISSUE Project Room Artist-in-Residence and 2009 Smack Mellon Studio Program artist. Her discography includes a number of solo and collaborative releases on various underground independent labels in the US and Europe, most recently, Axis/Atlas, on Clandestine Compositions.

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