Alessandro Cortini (Italy)

A portrait photo from the shoulders up of Alessandro Cortini, who faces forward with modular synths in the background. They are patched with numerous coloured wires. He has long, straight brown hair and is wearing a black t-shirt.

Alessandro Cortini (Italy) – Mar. 7, 2024

Co-presented with Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Alessandro Cortini (Italy)

w/Alexi Baris

Thursday, March 7, 2024 | 7pm

Telus Studio Theatre at Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Road)
Tickets available through The Chan Centre.

 

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IMPORTANT NOTICE
This concert was originally scheduled for October 1, 2023 and has now been re-scheduled to March 7, 2024.

If you are a ticketholder for the original October 1 date and would like to attend the new March 7 2024  date, no further action is required. Your ticket will remain valid for the new date.

 

Best known as a member of Nine Inch Nails, Alessandro Cortini has quietly been carving a name for himself in the world of experimental electronic music. The producer, composer, and musician is known for his lush ambient music, full of smoky restraint. His latest record, SCURO CHIARO, is focused on a single instrument Cortini made himself — Strega, a semi-modular synth and effects box.

With this custom synth, he has opened up a new sonic world with “a focus on the infinite fluctuations of limited palettes, a fine way of hanging harmonic flesh on sinewy rhythms, and an urge to slowly explode minute pulses into capacious sound worlds.” (Pitchfork)

Cortini last performed in Vancouver in 2015. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see him live in the intimacy of the Telus Studio Theatre, featuring special guest Alexi Baris.

 

Programmed by Jarrett Martineau, Chan Centre Curator-in-Residence

 

Co-presented with

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

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Co-presented with Chan Centre for the Performing Arts and VIVO Media Arts Centre.

Q&A with Alessandro Cortini

Wednesday, March 6, 2024 | 5-7pm

VIVO Media Arts Centre (2625 Kaslo Street) [map]
Free, but registration required.

 

This talk is sold out! A limited number of standing tickets will be available at the door. Please note that these standing tickets will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Please visit the box office at 4:00 pm to be added to standing list. Attendees on the list will be admitted at 4:45 pm.

 

Join Alessandro Cortini for a free artist talk and Q&A session moderated by Vancouver New Music Artistic Director Giorgio Magnanensi. Co-presented by Vancouver New Music and Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

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Photo by Emilie Elizabeth.