FRUSCIO is a Neue Musik solo-project by Chiara Picotto.

It was born and has been developed between Portugal, Italy and Germany in a path which lasted nearly six years.

 

The voice is the main instrument that accompanies, alternates and intertwines with sounds produced by everyday objects and road-memory-records.

Entirely self-produced, diary of real and imagined life, the work questions the use, the value, the meaning and the sound of words, using a number of languages including Italian, Portugues, English, German, Arab and adding to these codes the freedom and the pleasure of the exploration of a completely imagined language.

The Imaginary Language.

 

Three words inspired the structure of the work:            Construction_Deconstruction_Stratification,

while the compositional method is based on a game in which the geometry is in a playful relation with chaos and uncertainty.

Not everything has been thought right from the beginning: it happens that the initial idea, seducing the ears and the imagination, reveals the path to follow.

There are lines and dots: vocals and sounds overlap blending into each other.

Almost choral blocks are combined with moments of pause and suspension, in a dialogue between melodic phrases and experimental spaces, almost abstract.

 

Recorded with a simple Mac and a Pro Tools sound card, FRUSCIO exists thanks to the application of a single rule:

total rejection of rules and self-censorship.

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"...Chiara Picotto, que até agora tinha sido co-leitora,

impressionou com uma performance musical que se foi desdobrando em novos loops, sons e ruídos obtidos com a ajuda de papéis rasgados, objetos que caem, tambores e a sua própria voz, até se tornar cada vez mais alta no final e induzir mesmo alguns espetadores numa espécie de transe.

Mas a performance não se destinou só os ouvidos: também os olhos

foram brindados com um live-painting, uma pintura ao vivo sobre fitas de tecido esticadas na parede, criada pelo artista italiano Alessandro Vitali.

 

Uma enorme salva de palmas e muita admiração coroaram esta noite bem conseguida. Só resta esperar que o Altes Finanzamt continue com as suas atividades em Berlim até bem para lá de 2013."

(http://www.berlinda.org/Palcos/Palcos/Eintrage/2011/9/16_Palavras_para_sons_para_imagens__Critica_a_Reading_%26_Concert.html)