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'You & I are Earth' begins with the sound of a woman talking. She
recalls memories of being a young girl during the London Blitz fire
bombings of World War II. She speaks calmly at first, with memories of
the event slowly creeping up on her. These impressions soon become
illustrated through Vanessa Rossetto's own collage of mechanized cacophony.
Eventually, they develop into her signature Feldman-esque flowing-out of
strings.
The woman’s voice belongs to none other than Rossetto’s mother, and was
recorded by Rossetto herself. Through this assemblage of recorded and
created sources, we span two forms of devastation: the human, conjured
in the specter of the recorded voice, and the inhuman, the natural and
inorganic matter whose alienation provides a Hitchcock-worthy horror
soundtrack.
Vanessa Rossetto is an American composer, improviser and painter based
in New York City. She primarily uses field recordings, chamber
instrumentation, electronics and a wide array of objects to create
structures that expose the web of narrative threads underlying the
everyday sound world around us. Rossetto has released
material via Erstwhile, Kye, Unfathomless, Another Timbre, No Rent and
other labels including her own Music Appreciation, and has been featured
in publications such as The Wire, Tiny Mix Tapes, SPIN, Signal to Noise
and No Depression.