PORTLAND 

Alessandro Cortini


Live improvisational set from the Nine Inch Nails synthesist & guitarist  

Saturday, October 12, 2024
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
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 neo-Gothic cathedral in Portland 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.


Trinity Episcopal Cathedral


Located in Portland’s Northwest neighborhood, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral was built in 1903 after a fire destroyed the previous wooden church. The new cathedral was finished in 1906 and designed in the gothic revival style. Several elements of the older, fire-damaged church were built into the cathedral, including one of the rose windows and the carved wooden pulpit. The building is an ADA accessible space.

147 NW 19th Ave, Portland, OR 97209



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