SEATTLE
Alessandro Cortini
Live improvisational set from the Nine Inch Nails synthesist & guitarist
Friday, October 11, 2024
Seattle First Baptist Church
7pm (doors) 8pm (performance)
with Patricia Wolf
All ages
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Join Reflections for an evening of immersive light and sound at a historic church in Seattle with Italian composer Alessandro Cortini. Patricia Wolf opens the night with an ambient set of field recordings, voice, and synth. Both sets are paired with a celestial visual experience, illuminating the walls of the church with vivid, live motion graphics.
Cortini will share a series of atmospheric works made with the Make Noise Strega, the instrument he co-designed with synth company, Make Noise. We love Cortini’s delicate balance of stark minimalism and lush textures, hovering between ancient and modern sensibilities – math and magic, intertwined 🌙
Alessandro Cortini
Italian musician, producer, composer and instrument builder Alessandro Cortini is one of the foremost figures of contemporary electronic music. A longstanding member of Nine Inch Nails, Cortini has released several albums on Mute and Important Records, often in collaboration with luminaries such as Daniel Avery, Lawrence English, and Merzbow.
Balancing dark ambience with smokey, pulsing rhythms, his compositions are both restrained and mesmeric. In 2021, iwith boutique synth builders Make Noise, Cortini released his own, custom designed, semi-modular synth, Strega (Italian for ‘witch’). He used Strega to build his latest full length, Scuro Chiaro (Mute Records), which Pitchfork described as “pitched somewhere between purgatory and the planetarium... consistently managing to thrill and surprise.”
Patricia Wolf
Patricia Wolf is a musician, sound designer, field recordist and DJ residing in Portland, Oregon. Wolf’s work sonically unites natural and modern worlds, integrating ecological sources into her minimalist compositions. Using melody and repetition she lures listeners to her hypnotic inner space, conjuring vivid textures and atmospheres imbued with emotion.
She is a recipient of the Precipice Fund, a grant funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Her debut album, I’ll Look For You In Others was released in February 2022 on Past Inside The Present and was quickly followed up by her 2nd LP See-Through which was released on the Catalan label, Balmat.
She is a recipient of the Precipice Fund, a grant funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Her debut album, I’ll Look For You In Others was released in February 2022 on Past Inside The Present and was quickly followed up by her 2nd LP See-Through which was released on the Catalan label, Balmat.
Seattle First Baptist Church
Known for its beautiful stained glass and dramatic copper clad spire, the First Baptist Church is a Seattle architectural landmark. Designed by Seattle architect U. Grant Fay and the Tacoma firm of Russell & Babcock, it was created in the English Gothic revival style and completed in 1912. The building is an ADA accessible space.
1111 Harvard Ave, Seattle, WA 98122
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