We’re pleased to welcome Vanessa Rossetto to Stockport on her first-ever European tour. A U.S.-based composer and sound artist, Rossetto crafts dense, narrative works from the textures of everyday life—blending field recordings, electronics, and raw acoustic sound.
She’s joined by longtime collaborator Matthew Revert, a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist whose warped novels, skewed electronics, and unmistakable design work have earned cult status in the underground, and by special guest Lee Patterson, a Manchester-based sound artist known for drawing unexpected sounds from unlikely materials.
Food provided in the ticket price but arrive early to avoid disappointment!
Vanessa Rossetto is an American composer, improviser and painter. She uses primarily chamber instrumentation, field recordings, electronics and a wide array of different objects exploring them through extended and traditional techniques and other methods of her own devising.
Matthew Revert is a multidisciplinary artist from Melbourne, Australia with a focus on visual art, writing, music and design. He is the author of five novels including 'The Tumours Made Me Interesting', 'Basal Ganglia' and 'Human Trees'. Reissues of his sought after written work will finally be released starting with his first three comedic absurdist novels in 2021 by 11:11 Press. He has had music released in myriad formats by renowned labels such as Erstwhile Records, Kye Records, No Rent among others. His graphic design work appears on more than 800 books and record covers.
Through using sound recording to train his ears, Patterson has developed a dual practice that includes live performance and fixed works. By exploiting chemical and mechanical synthesis, he has created a range of amplified devices and processes that produce or uncover complex sound in unexpected places.
From rock chalk to springs, from burning nuts to aquatic life and insect chants inside plants, he eavesdrops upon and makes a novelty of playing objects and situations otherwise considered mute.
His collaborators have included Mika Vainio, Jennifer Walshe, Vanessa Rossetto, David Toop, Rhodri Davies and John Butcher, Greg Pope, Benedict Drew, Luke Fowler, Lucio Capece, Rie Nakajima, Angharad Davies, Keith Rowe, John Tilbury, Xavier Charles and Tetsuya Umeda.
His works have featured on UK television, BBC Radios 3, 4 and 6, Resonance FM and on radio stations worldwide.
He lives and works in Prestwich, Manchester, UK.
Eroteme is a Manchester based concert series championing experimental music from the hinterlands. Home of the Uncategorizable. Foraging new sonic territories in electronics, improvisation and beyond.