PORTLAND
Alessandro Cortini
Live improvisational set from the Nine Inch Nails synthesist & guitarist
Saturday, October 12, 2024
The Old 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 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.
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.
The Old Church
Built in 1882, TOC is the oldest church building in downtown Portland. In 1967, dedicated citizens banded together to purchase and save this heritage building from demolition. TOC was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 because it’s an excellent example of Carpenter Gothic architecture and it has been remarkably unaltered since its construction in the 1880s. The building is an ADA accessible space.
1422 SW 11th Ave, Portland, OR 97201
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