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Sam Genovese | ENTANGLEMENTING – An American Ending
electronic opera for solo voice
libretto and music by Sam Genovese
January 30th-February 28th
Artist Talk: February 20th 7pm CET
ARMADILLO Gallery for Sound Art Leipzig
Etgar-André-Str. 29, 04157 Leipzig
Curated by Antje Görner
ENTANGLEMENTING is Sam Genovese’s 6th album and 1st opera employing: electronic score; noise; volume; a solo Natural American vocal style.
Our story takes its initial cues from America’s 20th century bifurcated personality — private wars and public peace, democratic prose and foreign overthrows — and places that tension in the shape of a single man. His dissonance reaches crisis point.
Sam Genovese’s interests in this ambitious piece lie in generating an idiosyncratic dramatic vocabulary shifting through different forms of “language,” alternately activating the cerebral and more primal modes of experience. Traditional speech drops off into sentences completed with noise. Narrative phrases freely swap words for sounds and images. Changing modalities create expansive emotional and aesthetic leaps.
Official Selection — BLOW-UP Film Festival 2020 (Chicago)
Honorable Mention — Experimental Forum 2020
Sam Genovese (MFA in Experimental Electronic Music and Recording from Mills College) studied with Pauline Oliveros, Maggi Payne, Molly Holm, John Bischoff, Chris Brown, James Fei, Roscoe Mitchell.
He combines image and sound, story and experimentation, emotion and texture through the use of cinematic language and expansive sound exploration.
Sam Genovese has performed and/or exhibited video and sound works in various places in the U.S. Europe and Japan.
